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COMPBISING THE CELEBEATED 



POLITICAL AND SATIRICAL POEMS, 



The Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, 

The Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gipford, 

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EDITOE'S PEEFACE. 



The fate which usually attends political and satirical 
writings that owe their origin to passing events, has in 
no way affected the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, which, 
after a lapse of more than ninety years, still continues to 
interest and amuse. Public opinion never fails, sooner 
or later, to arrive at a just conclusion as to the merits 
both of individuals and actions; and though it may often 
neglect to preserve a meritorious work, never perpetuates 
a worthless one. Poetry which lashed with so remorse- 
less a hand the patriotic proceedings, and held up to 
ridicule the persons and habits, of the most distinguished 
Whig leaders, must have possessed no common merit to 
have won the encomiums of such liberal politicians and 
such critics as Mackintosh and Jeffrey, Moore and 
Bykon. 

Moore, in his Life of Sheridan, observes: " The Rolliad 
and The Anti-JacoUn may, on their respective sides of the 
question, be considered as models of that style of political 
satire whose lightness and vivacity give it the appearance 
of proceeding rather from the wantonness of wit than of 
ill-nature, and whose very malice, from the fancy with 
which it is mixed up, like certain kinds of fire-works, 
explodes in sparkles". This criticism might be applied 
to some of his own political squibs. 



Vi POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

As the poems refer to occurrences long since past, a 
rapid glance at the state of events at that time (1797-8) 
may render them more intelligible to the generality of 
readers. 

The affairs of England were then in a critical position. 
The ministry of Pitt was carrying on a fierce war with 
republican France, the necessity for which had split the 
public into two great parties. The liberal party alleged, 
that "the whole misfortunes of Europe and all the crimes 
of France had arisen from the iniquitous coalition of 
kings to overturn its infant freedom ; — that, if its govern- 
ment had been left alone, it would neither have stained 
its hands with innocent blood at home nor pursued plans 
of aggrandizement abroad ; and that the Eepublic, relieved 
from the pressure of external danger, and no longer 
roused by the call of patriotic duty, would have quietly 
turned its swords into pruning-hooks, and, renouncing 
the allurements of foreign conquests, thought only of 
promoting the internal felicity of its citizens ". 

These sentiments, though supported by the extra- 
ordinary eloquence of Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, and 
others, had but little weight with the minister or the 
great body of the public. It was impossible to deny 
that the power of the French Eepublic was daily increas- 
ing, and threatened the subjugation of the greater part 
of Europe. Buonaparte had overrun Italy, and broken 
the power of Austria, which, by the treaty of Leoben, 
was compelled to cede the Netherlands to France, allow 
the free navigation of the Eliine, and recognise the in- 
dependence of the newly-erected Italian republics. 



EDITOE S PEEFACE. Vll 

Spain, also, had declared war against Britain, which 
was thus left to contend singly against the power of 
France ; for the Directory had refused the basis of peace 
proposed by Loed Malmesbuey, that of a mutual restitu- 
tion of conquests. To add to these embarrassments, dur- 
ing the year 1797 credit became affected, and the Bank 
of England suspended cash payments ; mutinies broke 
out in the fleets at Spithead and the Nore ; and Ireland 
was on the verge of rebellion. But the talents of Pitt 
were equal to the occasion, and his power rose higher 
than ever, when his prognostications were shortly after 
(in December, 1797) confirmed by the unprovoked attack 
upon Switzerland by the French. The impolicy of this 
proceeding was equal to its infamy ; for nothing ever 
done by the revolutionary government contributed so 
powerfully to cool the ardour of its partisans in Europe, 
and to open the eyes of the intelligent and respectable 
classes in every other country to its ultimate designs. 
Its effect on the friends of freedom in England may be 
judged of from the indignant protest of Sie James 
Mackintosh, himself once a warm admirer of the French 
Eevolution, who, in his defence of Jean Peltiee, in 1803, 
for a libel on Buonapaete, declared, " the invasion and 
destruction of Switzerland an act, in comparison with 
which all the deeds of rapine and blood perpetrated in 
the world are innocence itself ". Even before this, the 
true character of the revolution had been detected by 
the democratic Coleeidge, who gave public utterance 
to his feelings of horror and disgust in that noble Ode to 
France written in February, 1797. In a word, to say 



Viii POETBY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

nothing of her other conquests, France, at the beginning 
of 1798, had three affihated repubhes at her side, the 
Batavian, Cisalpine, and the Ligurian ; before its close 
she had organized three more, the Helvetic, the Eoman, 
and the Parthenopeian. 

Pitt's influence was further increased by the threatened 
invasion of Great Britain by the French, a proceeding 
which, as it affected every class in the country, raised 
the national enthusiasm to the highest pitch, inflamed 
as it already was by the recent glorious victories off Cape 
St. Vincent and Camperdown. That they were likely 
to be in earnest had been already shown by their expedi- 
tions to Bantry Bay and Pembrokeshire, and Buona- 
parte's boast at Geneva, that " he would democratize 
England in three months," proved how much he relied 
upon the support of the malcontents both in Great 
Britain and Ireland. The estimates and preparations for 
defence were enormous ; taxes, to an extent utterly un- 
known before, were laid on ; the Volunteer Bill was 
passed (Sheridan assisting), by which, in addition to the 
regular army, a hundred and fifty thousand volunteers 
were, in a few weeks, in arms ; The King was authorized 
by another bill, in the event of an invasion, to call out the 
levy, en masse, of the population ; the Alien Bill was re- 
enacted ; and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act 
continued for another year. 

But the genius of one man, however great, can effect 
but little, unless suitably supported by others. The saga- 
cious mind of Pitt had long seen that his party in 
Parliament were, with very few exceptions, no match for 



EDITOR S PREFACE. IX 

his numerous opponents, powerful both in talent and 
social position ; among whom were Fox, Sheridan, 
Erskine, Horne Tooke, Whitbread, Nicholls, Courte- 
NAY, FiTZPATRiCK, the DuKBs of NoRFOLK and Bedford, 
Lord Stanhope, the Duchess of Devonshire, and others. 
He was always anxious, therefore, to secure whatever 
available talent presented itself, and immediately on their 
appearance enlisted under his banners Canning, Jenkin- 
soN, HusKissoN, and Castlereagh, all men of the same 
standing, for the first three were born in 1770, and the 
last in 1769. 

The important assistance of Canning was immediately 
felt, for he was, in the words of Byron, "a genius — 
almost a universal one ; an orator, a wit, a poet, a states- 
man ". Though he entered Parliament at the early age 
of 23 (in 1793), and attained the post of Under-Secretary 
of State for the Foreign Department two years after, he 
was by no means inexperienced either as a writer or as an 
orator ; for while a student at Eton he had won distinc- 
tion by his contributions to The Microcosm, a weekly paper 
published by the more advanced Etonians, and also in 
the discussions of their Debating Society, which were 
conducted with strict regard to parliamentary usages. 
And afterwards, while studying for the law, he took an 
active part in the proceedings of the debating societies of 
the metropolis, in which he achieved so much reputation 
as to lead to his introduction to Pitt, whose party he 
unhesitatingly joined. 

Canning early saw the necessity of the Government's 
possessing some literary engine, which, like the Whig 



X POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

RoUiad, published some years before, should carry con- 
fusion into the ranks of its enemies. In a lucky hour he 
conceived the idea of The Ant i- Jacobin, a weekly news- 
paper, interspersed with poetry, the avowed object of 
which was to expose the vicious doctrines of the French 
Revolution, and to turn into ridicule and contempt the 
advocates of that event, and the sticklers for peace and 
parliamentary reform. The editor was William Gifford, 
whose vigorous and unscrupulous pen had been already 
shown in his Baviad and Mceviad ; and among the regular 
writers were : John Hookham Frere, Jenkinson (after- 
wards Earl of Liverpool), George Ellis (who had 
previously contributed to the Whig Rolliad), Lord Clare, 
Lord Mornington (afterwards Marquis Wellesley), 
Lord Morpeth (afterwards Earl of Carlisle), Baron 
Macdonald, and others. These gentlemen entered upon 
their task with no common spirit. Their purpose was 
to blacken their adversaries, and they spared no means, 
fair or foul, in the attempt. Their most distinguished 
countrymen, whose only fault was their being opposed to 
government, were treated with no more respect than their 
foreign adversaries, and were held up to public execration 
as traitors, blasphemers, and debauchees. So alarmed, 
however, became Wilberforce and others of the more 
moderate supporters of ministers at the boldness of the 
language employed, that Pitt was induced to interfere, 
and, after an existence of eight months. The Anti-Jacobin 
(in its original form) ceased to exist. 

The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin is not exclusively political. 
The Loves of the Triangles, a parody on Dr. Darwin's Loven 



EDITOR S PREFACE. XI 

of the Plants, is, in the opinion of a celebrated critic (Lord 
Jeffrey) of the highest degree of merit ; as is also The 
Progress of Man, a parody on Payne Knight's Progress of 
Civil Society ; and The Rovers, a burlesque on the German 
dramas then in vogue, the extraordinary plots of which, 
as well as their language, alternately ultrasentimental 
and domestically bathotic, well marked them out for 
ridicule, is distinguished by sharp wit and broad humour 
of the happiest kind. Canning and his coadjutors in this 
piece did a real service to literature, and assisted in a 
purij&cation which Gifford, by his demolition of the Delia 
Cruscan school of poetry, had so well begun. Of The 
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder it is unnecessary 
to speak ; perhaps no lines in the English language have 
been more effective, or oftener quoted. 

But Canning's greatest power is shown in New Morality, 
which, being the last of the series, seems to have been 
i-eserved as a concentrating medium for his pent-up scorn 
and contempt of the Whigs and their adherents. So that 
their blows fall thick (for he was powerfully seconded by 
Frere, Gifford, and Ellis), they care little who suffer from 
them, and the modern reader is surprised to find Charles 
Lamb and other non-intruders into politics, figuring as 
congenial conspirators with Tom Paine ! 

It is somewhat difficult to regard Pitt in the character 
of a Wit and a Poet, as from the narrative of most of his 
biographers, he might be considered as uniformly cold, 
stiff, and unbending; but his intimate friend Wilber- 
FORCE, in his Memoirs, thus describes him : " Pitt, when 
free from shyness, and amongst his intimate companions, 



Xll POETEY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

was the very soul of merriinent aud conversation. He 
was the wittiest man I ever knew, aud what was quite 
pecuhar to himself, had at all times his wit under entire 
controul. Others appeared struck by the unwonted 
association of brilliant images ; but every possible com- 
bination of ideas' seemed always present to his mind, and 
he could at once produce whatever he desired. I was one 
of those who met to spend an evening in memory of 
Shakespeare, at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap. Many 
professed wits were present, but Pitt was the most 
amusing of the party, the readiest and most apt in the 
required allusions." It is not, therefore, at all unlikely, 
that he now and then contributed witty verses to The 
Anti-Jacohin, in addition to those which the Editor has, 
on probable grounds, ascribed to him in the present 
volume. 

" Critical commentary," says a critic of the previous 
edition, " on the merits of The Anti-Jacohin, would be 
superfluous. Its satire is distinguished for the terse 
language of its poignant personality, which was often 
excessively stinging, but seldom offensively coarse. Its 
best contributors. Canning and Frebe, were not mere 
pamphleteers in verse, like the writers for The RolUad. 
They had poetical inspiration and a sprightly joyousness 
springing from a genial play of the mental faculties. 
They were ' Conservatives ' not only in their politics but 
in their loyal adherence to the ordinances and traditions 
of classical English literature. False sentiment, tumid 
diction, mawkish cant, were chastised by them with 
exemplary efficacy. On the fourth edition of the com- 



editor's preface. xiii 

plete work (1799, 2 Vols. 8vo, containing both prose and 
poetry), they placed the epigraph, Sparsosque recoUig/'t 
i(jnes ; and in the very last paper (No. 36), the motto on 
discontinuance was exquisitely happy : — 

" ' We shall miss thee ; 
But yet thou shalt have freedom. 

So to the elements 
Be free ; and fare thou well ! ' 

"And these lines, taken from The Tempest (probably by 
Canning), have been prophetic of the popularity of their 
witty verse, still quoted and admired by all lovers of the 
genius that is airily elegant and strong." 

CHARLES EDMONDS. 
Water Orton, Birmingham. 



ADDITIONS TO THE PEESENT EDITION. 



Nmnerous new Biographical and other Notes. 

Additions and Corrections to the List of presumed Authoks of 
" The Poetry ". 

Selections from the Prose portion of the work, written by the 
Rt. Hon. G. Canning and his coadjutors. 

Account of the various Editions of Tkc Anti-Jacohin, and its suc- 
cessors. 

Enlarged articles on the opposition Newspapers abused by The 
Anti'Jacohin writers. 

The curious Abusive and Satirical Index to The Anti-Jacohin ; 
and specimens of a similar Index to The Anti-Jacobm Review 
atid Magazine. 

Selections from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine — the suc- 
cessor to The Anti-Jacobin — showing that though written by 
a diiierent body of Authors, both works were animated by the 
same spkit. 



EDITIONS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN; 
AND ITS SUCCESSORS. 



The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. Sparsosque recolligit ignes. 
From Nov. 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. 4to. ^ London. 

Nos. 1 to 36 ; with a Prospectus (complete). 

The Same. Second, and third editions, in 4to. 

The Same. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. 2 vols. 8vo. 

London, 1799. 
Every Number contained Poetry, the presumed Names of the Authors of 
which will be found in the Table of Contents of the present volume. 



The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. 4to. London, isoi. 

This volume includes the whole of the Poetry contained in the original 
Anti-Jacobin, with a few verbal corrections. Previous to its publication, it was 
announced that it would be illustrated by 40 plates expressly designed by 
GiLLRAY ; but they never appeared. Numerous editions in 12mo subsequently 
appeared, b\it without any additions, till those mentioned below. 



The Poetry of the Anti-JaCOBin. A New Edition, with Explanatory Notes 
by Charles Edmonds. 12mo. London, 1S52. 

The Same. Second edition, by Charles Edmonds ; with additional 

Notes, the original Prospectus (by the Rt. Hon. G. Canning), and a com- 
plete List of the Authors. Illustrated by six etchings after the designs 
of Jas. Gillray. 12mo. London, 1854. 



The Anti-.Jacobin Review and Magazine ; or Monthly Political and Literary 
Censor. From the commencement in July, 1798, to its close in 1821. 
(The first few vols, contain engravings by Gillray anci others, and much 
Poetry is scattered through the volumes.) 61 vols. 8vo. London, 1798-1821. 
For reasons stated on a previous page. Canning and other political friends 
of Pitt thought it prudent to withdraw themselves from the original Anti- 
Jacobin, but by a preconcerted arrangement it was determined that the spirit 
which had pervaded that work, and which had had so powerful an effect on the 
popular mind, and thereby, in connection with Gillray's caricatures, so un- 
doubtedly strengthened the hands of the Ministry, should not die, if it could be 
kept alive by other and congenial writers. In the words of Mr. Fox Bourne 
(in his valuable \yox]s. on English Neu-spapers, 1SS7): "Though The Anti-Jacobin 
made its last appearance on July 9, 1798, there was started a few days before a 
monthly Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine of the same politics, but much less 
brilliant, and more ponderous. Strange to say, it also was edited by a Gifford, 
or one who so called himself. John Richards Green was a bold and versatile 
adventurer, who, having to fly from his creditors in 1782, returned from France 
in 1788, as John Gifford, and was connected with several newspapers [in- 
cluding the establishment of The British Critic], besides editing The Anti-Jacobin 
Review. [He also wrote a History of France, and other works.] Befriended in 

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XVlll POETBY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

many -ways by Pitt, he wrote a four-volume pamphlet [3 vols. 4to, and also 
6 vols. Svo, both dated 1809], styled the Life of William Pitt, after his patron's 
death. James Mill, the friend and associate of Jeremy Bentham, was glad 
to earn money in his stniggling days by writing non-political articles for The 
Anti-Jamtjin Revinc. William Gifford, it is hardly necessary to state, besides 
editing Ben Jonson's Works, and other useful occupations, was the first editor 
of The Quarterly Revie^o in 1809." 

In the British Museum are two copies of The Anii- Jacobin Review and 
Magazine. In one of them the first six vols, contain the Names of the Authors 
of most of the articles, among whom are the Rev. John Wiiitaker, author of 
The History of Manchester, the Rev. Sam. Henshall, author of works on Domes- 
day Book, the Rev. C. E. Stewart, a copious poetaster, etc., and many other 
clergymen. 



The New Anti-Jacobin Review. Delenda est Carthago. 

Nos. 1 to 3 seem to be all that were published, and appeared May 6, June 9, 
and June 23, 1827 ; price two shillings each. 

No. 2 includes what is called a Patriot Portrait Exhibition, which is continued 
in No. 3. In the latter No. is also an article entitled Can-'iingiana. Published 
by Saunders and Otley. 



The New Anti-Jacobin ; a Monthly Magazine of Politics, Commerce, Science, 
Literature, Art, Music, and the Drama. 

Consists of only Nos. 1 and 2. Published by Smith, Elder, & Co., and 
Carpenter <fc Son ; dated respectively April and May, 1833. 

No. 2 contains Horace in Parliament, an Ode to William Cobbett ; being a 
Parody on Horace— /»i Barinen, Ode 4, Lib. 2. It is accompanied by a full- 
length portrait of Cobbett. 

The above two works, in accordance with their titles, advocate high Tory 
principles ; but though written ^vith great spirit they had but a very short 
existence. Copies of both will be found in the British Museum. 



English Actors in the French Revolution, and Eye-witnesses of the 

SAME. 

The most complete details hitherto furnished on these interesting subjects 
will be found in the Nos. for October, 1887, and July, 1888, of The Edinburgh 
Review, the work of Mr. John G. Alger, the Paris correspondent of The Times. 
They have since been published in a volume. {Englishmen in the French Revolu- 
tion : Low& Co., 1889.) 




CONTENTS OF THE POETKY OF THE ANTI- JACOBIN, 

WITH THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS. 



The following notices of the writers of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin are 
derived from the copies mentioned below, and each name is authenticated by 
the initials of the authority upon which each piece is ascribed to particular 
persons :— 

C. . . Canning's own copy of the Poetry. 

B. . Lord Burghersh's copy. 

"VV. . . Wright the publisher's copy. 

U. . . Information of W. Upcott, amanuensis. 



[Although many of the pieces in the following list are attributed to wrong 
authors, it has been thought more convenient to reprint them as they stood in 
the previous edition, in order to insert any corrections, as far as Frere is con- 
cerned. These are derived from the information of Frere himself given to his 
nephews, who afterwards edited his works in 1872. They are therefore placed 
beneath the Title of the piece— between brackets. 

The pieces, printed in Italics — between brackets— appear for the first time in 
an edition of The Poetnj.—ET>.] 

PAGE. AUTHORS. 

Peospectus of the Anti- Jacobin 1 Canning. 

Introduction 12 Canning. 

Inscription for the Apartment in Chepstow \ 

Castle, where Henry Marten, the Regicide, >• Southey. 

was imprisoned thirty years 16 ' 

Inscription for the Door of the Cell in New- 'i 

gate, where Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prentice- |_ Canning ^p 

cide, was confined previous to her execu- j ^'^r© • 

tion 16^ 

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife 

Grinder 23J 

The Invasion ; or, the British War Song 25 Hely Addington, W. 

La Sainte Guillotine : a New Song, attempted \ Canning ) f, 

from the French 29/ Hammond, B. 

[By Canning and Frere only.] 
[Meeting of the Friends of Frecdoni] 32 claimed by Frere. 



\ Frere ) p 
j/ Canning i ^' 



XX POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

PAGE. AUTHORS. 

( Canning (^ p 

The Soldier's Friend 38-! Frere l ^• 

( Ellis, B. 
[By Canning and Frcre only.] 

Sonnet to Liberty 39 Lord Carlisle, B. < 

Quintessence of all the Dactylics that ever i Canning, B. 

were, or ever will be, written 41/ Gifford, W. 

Latin Verses, written immediately after the \ 

Revolution of the Fourth of September ... 43/ ^^^' ^ ®s sy- 
Translation of the above 45 Frere, B. 

[Pearce, in his Memoirs nf the Marquis Wdlesley, gives the credit of this 
translation to the sixth Earl of Carlisle.] 

The Choice ; imitated from The Battle of \ 

Sabla, in Carlyle's Specimens of Arabian > G. Ellis, B. 
Poetry 48/ 

The Duke and the Taxing Man 52 Bar.Macdonald,C.,B- 

Epigram on the Paris Loan, called the Loan "j 

T-. 1 1 i:A Frere, B. 

upon England 54J 

[Not claimed by Frere] 

Ode to Anarchy 55 Lord Morpeth, B. 

Song, recommended to be sung at all con- "j 

vivial meetings convened for the purpose > Frere, _B. 

of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill 58 ) 

[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.] 

Lines written at the close of the year 1797... 61 

Translation of the New Song of The Army of 

Eoigland 63 

Epistle to the Editors of The Anti- Jacobin... 68 

[This Epistle is now known to have been written by the Hon. Wm. Lamb, 
(afterwards second Viscount Melbourne, and Prime Minister). 
He was then only in his nineteenth year.] 

To the Author of the Epistle to the Editors of \ Canning, C. 

the Anti-Jacobin 7l/ HammoAd, B. 

Ode to Lord Moira 78 G. Ellis, C, B. 

A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox 83 [ f^erS.^' 

Acme and Septimius ; or, the Happy Union 88 G. Ellis, C. 

[Mr. Fox's Birth-Day] 90 

To the Author of the Anti- Jacobin 95 1 wards^Bathurst. 



CONTENTS. XXI 

PAGE. AUTHORS. 

Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox \ 

at the Crown and Anchor 99/ ^''^'e. B. 

Lines written by a Traveller at Czarcozelo ^ 

under the Bust of a certain Orator, once „„. „ 

-, -I n I. -r-^ n 1 y Cr. EUlS, B. 

placed between those of Demosthenes and j 

Cicero 99J 

[Jas. Boswell, jun., asserts, on the authority of the nephew of the 
great statesman, that the above lines were written by Pitt. This is 
not improbable : see Note on page 101.] 

( Canning, C. 

The Progress of Man. Didactic Poem 102 ^ Gifford, W. 

^ ( Fiere, B. 

[Cantos 1 and 2 by Canning only ; and Canto 23 by Canning and Frere 
only.] 

The Progress of Man, coiitimiecl 107 j- H^JJJJJJfnd B. 

Imitation of Bion. Written at St. Anne's ^ q. Ellis, B. 

Hill 111/ Gifford,'w.' 

The New Coalition ; Imitation of Horace, 

Lib. 3, Carm. 9 114 

[The Honey Moon of Fux and Tookc, another 

version of the same by the Eev. C. E. 

Stewart ; published in the Anti-Jacobin 

Review, vol. i.] 116 

Imitation of Horace, Lib. 3, Carm. 25 119 Canning, C. 

Chevy Chase 125 Bar.Macdonald,C.,B. 

Ode to Jacobinism 129 

The Progress of Man, continued 133 | Frere ) ^• 

I G. Ellis, B. 

The Jacobin 141 Nares, W. 

The Loves of the Triangles. A Mathe- -> Frere, C. 

matical and Philosophical Poem 145/ Canning, B. 

[All but the last three lines Frcre's.'] 

The Loves of the Triangles, continued 158-| %^^^^' g' ^^• 

[Down to " Twine round his struggling heart," by Ellis. From " Thus, 
happy France," to " And folds the parent-monarch," by Canning, 
Ellis, and Frere. The next twelve lines, which were not in the/rsJ 
edition, 179S, were added by Canning.] 
Brissot's Ghost 165 Frere, B. 

[Not claimed by Frere.'] 

r Canning) B.,\V., C. 

The Loves of the Triangles, con^miiccZ 170-5 Gifford >G. 

(. Frere J C. 
[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.] 



Xxii POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

PAGE. AUTHORS. 

By Citizen Muskein 182 



A Consolatory Address to his Gun-Boats. \ Lord Morpeth, B. 



r frere » 

Ode to my Country, MDCCxcviii 191-^ B. B. i" 

<- Hammc 



f Canning-! B., C. 
Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon St. Andre. ..185.^ Gifford ^C. 
^^ l Frere J C. 

[By Canning, Ellis, and Frere.'i 

Frere )_ ^ 

Hammond, B. 
[This is not claimed by Frere.] 

Ode to the Director Merlin 199 Lord Morpeth, B. 

i Frere \ 
G. ElYis \^- 
Canning ) B. 

[Ace 1, Sc. 1 and 2, by FrereSong by Canning and Sllis ; Act 2, So. 1 
and 3, and Act 3, by Canning ; Act 2, Sc. 2, and Act 4, by Frere, 
The preliminary prose by Frere and Canning.] 

Frere \ B. 



Ellis 
Canninc 



C. 



The Rovers ; or, the Double Arrangement, \ Gifford 
continued 219 1 

An Affectionate Effusion of Citizen Muskein \ 

„ [ Lord Morpeth, B. 
to Havre-de-Grace -^odJ 

Translation of a Letter from Bawba-dara- j yjiis" I c. 

adulphoola, to Neek-awl-aretchidkooez .. 2391 pjy"g"Sp- 

[By Cannijig, Fllis, and Fi-ere.] 

[Buonaparte's Letter to the Commandant at 

Zante] 248 

Ode to a Jacobin 251 

Ballynahinch ; A New Song 255 Cannmg, C. 

De Navali Laude Britanniaa 257 Canning, B. 

[Translation of the above... 2604 The late^A. F. West- 

"- { macott.] 

[ Valedictory A ddress] 263 

{ Canning \ B 

New Morality 271-^ ^ffti W 



\ 



Gifford 
G. Ellis 



CONTENTS. XXm 

LINE. 

1 From Mental Mists Frere, W. 

15 Yet venial Vices, &c Canning, W. 

29 Bethink thee, Gifford, &c. These lines were written by Canning some 
years before he had any personal acquaintance with Gifford. 

71 Awake ! for shame ! Canning, W. 

158 Fond Hope ! Frere, W. 

168 Such is the liberal Justice Canning, W. 

f Frere ) 
249 O ! Nurse of Crimes i Canning J- W. 

( G. Ellis ) 
261 See Loiivet Canning, W. 

287 But hold, severer Virtue | Canning t ^• 

( Frere ) 

302 To thee proud Barras bows < Cannina: > W. 

L Ellis ^ J 

318 Ere long, perhaps { ElHs"^ I '^• 

328 Couriers and Stars 4 cannin<^ [ ^• 

356 Britain, beware Canning, W. 

372 So thine own Oak attributed to W. Pitt. 

"Wright, the publisher of the Anti-Jacobin, lived at 169, Piccadilly, and 
his shop was the general morning resort of the friends of the ministry, as 
Debrext'S was of the oppositionists. About the time when the Anti-Jacobin 
was contemplated, Owen, who had been the publisher of Burke's pamphlets, 
failed. The editors of the Anti-Jacobin took his house, paying the rent, taxes, 
&c., and gave it up to Wright, reserving to themselves the first floor, to which 
a communication was opened through Wright's house. Being thus enaljled to 
pass to their own rooms through Wright's shop, where their frequent visits 
did not excite any remarks, they contrived to escape particular observation." 

" Their meetings were most regular on Sundays, but they not unfrequently 
met on other days of the week, and in their rooms were chiefly written the 
poetical portions of the work. What was written was generally left open upon the 
table, and as others of the party dropped in, hints or suggestions were made ; 
sometimes whole passages were contributed by some of the parties present, and 
afterwards altered by others, so that it is almost impossible to ascertain the 
names of the authors. Where, in the above notes, a piece is ascribed to different 
authors, the conflicting statements may arise from incorrect information, but 
sometimes they arise from the whole authorship being assigned to one person, 
when, in fact, both may have contributed. If vve look at the references, 167, 
185, we shall see Canning naming several authors, whereas Lord Burghersh 
assigns all to one author. Canning's authority is here more to be relied upon. 
New Morality CANNING assigns generally to the four contributors. Wright has 
given some interesting particulars by appropriating to each his peculiar portion." 

" Gifford was the working editor, and wrote most of the refutations and 
corrections of the Lies, Mistakes, and Misrepresentations." 

" The papers on finance were chiefly by Pitt : the first column was frequently 
kept for what he might send ; but his contributions were uncertain, and generally 
very late, so that the space reserved for him was sometimes filled up by other 
matter. He only once met the editors at Wright's." 

" W. Upcott, who was at the time assistant in Wright's shop, was employed 
as amanuen.sis, to copy out for the printer the various contributions, that 
the author's handwriting might not be detected." — E. Haickins. 



" THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING AS A MAN OF LETTERS." 

[The following is part of a review, under the above title, of the present editor's 
previous edition of The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, and appeared in The Edinburgh 
Review of July, 1858. It is reprinted in the Biographical and Critical Essays of 
A. Hayward, Esq., Q.C., 2 vols., 8vo., 1873. It is introduced here as throwing 
some additional light on the Writers of the vai-ious pieces.] 

"... We can hardly say of Canning's satire what was said of Sheridan's, 
that — 

" ' His wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, 
Never carried a heart-stain away on its blade '. 

But its severity was redeemed by its buoyancy and geniality, whilst the subjects 
against which it was principally aimed gave it a healthy tone and a sound 
foundation. Its happiest effusions will be found in The Anii- Jacobin, set on foot 
to refute or ridicule the democratic rulers of revolutionary France and their 
admirers or apologists in England, who, it must be owned, were occasionally 
hurried into a culpable degree of extravagance and laxity by their enthu- 
siasm. . ." 

" We learn from Mr. Edmonds that almost all his authorities practically 
resolve themselves into one, the late Mr. AV. Upcott, and that he never saw 
either of the alleged copies on which his informant relied. As regards the 
principal one, Canning's own, after the fullest inquiries amongst his surviving 
relatives and friends, we cannot discover a trace of its existence at any period. 
Lord Burghersh (the late Earl of Westmoreland) was under fourteen 
years of age during the publication of The Anti- Jacobin ; and we very much 
doubt whether either the publisher or the amanuensis (be he who he may) was 
admitted to the complete confidence of the contributors, or whether either the 
prose or poetry was composed as stated. In a letter to the late Madame de 
GiRARDIN, d ji'i'opos of her play, I'^^cole des Journalistes, JULES JANIN happily 
e;cposes the assumption that good leading articles ever were, or ever could be, 
produced over punch and broiled bones, amidst intoxication and revelry. 
Equally untenable is the belief that poetical pieces, like the best of The Anti- 
Jacobin, were written in the common rooms of the confraternity, open to 
constant intrusion, and left upon the table to be corrected or completed by the 
lirst comer. The unity of design discernible in each, the glowing harmony of 
the thoughts and images, and the exquisite finish of the versification, tell of 
silent and solitary hours spent in brooding over, maturing, and polishing a 
cherished conception ; and young authors, still unknown to fame, are least of 
all likely to sink their individuality in this fashion. We suspect that their 
main object in going to Wright's was to correct their proofs and see one 
another's articles in the more finished state. Their meetings, if for these 
purposes, would be most regular on Sundays, because the paper appeared 
every Monday morning. The extent to which they aided one another may be 
collected from a well-authenticated anecdote. When Frere had completed 
the first part of The Loves of the Triannles, he exultingly read over the following 
lines to Canning, and defied him to improve upon them : — 

" ' Lo, where the chimney's sooty tube ascends, 
The fair Trochais from the corner bends ! 
Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark 
The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark ; 
Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between. 
Her much-loved Smoke-Jack glimmers through the scene ; 



CANNING AS A MAN OF LETTEES. XXV 

Mark, how his various parts together tend, 
Point to one purpose, — in one object end ; 
The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow, 
Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow. 
While slowly circuravolves the piece of beef below : ' 

" Canning took the pen and added — 

" ' The conscious flre with bickering i-adiance burns. 
Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns '. 

" These two lines are now blended with the original text, and constitute, we 
are informed on the best authority, the only flaw in Frere's title to the sole 
authorship of the First Part. The Second and Third Parts were by Canning. 

" By the kindness of [the late] Lord Hatherton, we have now before us a 
bound volume containing all the numbers of The Anti-Jamhin as they originally 
appeared, eight pages quarto, with double columns, price sixpence. On the 
fly-leaf is inscribed : ' This copy belonged to the Marquess Wellesley, and was 
purchased at the sale of his library after his death, January, 1842. H.' On 
the cover is pasted an engraved label of the arms and name of a former 
Ijroprietor, Charles William Flint, with the pencilled addition of ' Con- 
fidential Amanuensis '. In this copy Canning's name is subscribed to (amongst 
others) the following pieces, which are also assigned to him (along with a large 
share in the most popular of the rest; by the most trustworthy rumours and 
traditions: — Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newfrate tohere Mrs. Brownrigg, 
the Prenticide, was confined previous to her execution ; The Friend of Humanity and 
the Knife-Grinder ; the lines addressed To the Author of the Einstle to the Editors 
of The Anti-Jacobin ; The Pror/rcss of Man (all three parts) ; and Neio Morality * 

" With the single exception of The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, 
no piece in the collection is more freshly remembered than the Inscription for 
the Cell of Mrs. Broionrigg, who 

" ' A\1iipp'd two female prentices to death, 
And hid them in the coal-hole '. 

" The Answer to Tlie A uthor of the Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin is less 
known, and it derives a fresh interest from the fact, recently [c. 1854] made 
public, that The Epistle (which appeared in The Morning Chronicle of January 
17, 1798) was the composition of William Lord Melbourne. The beginning 
shows that the veil of incognito had been already penetrated. 

" ' Whoe'er ye are, all hail ! — whether the skill 
Of youthful Canning guides the ranc'roiis quill ; 
With powers mechanic far above his age, 
Adapts the paragraph and fills the page ; 
Measures the column, mends whate'er's amiss. 
Rejects THAT letter, and accepts of THIS ; 
Or Hammond, leaving his official toil. 
O'er this great work consume the midnight oil — 
Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit, 
And change dull business for amusing wit.' 

" After referring to ' the poetic sage, who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage,' 
The Epistle proceeds : — 

" ' I swear by all the youths that Malmesbury chose.t 
By Ellis' sapient prominence of nose — 

* On the subject of the respective authorship of the contributions to The 

Anti-Jacobin, see The Worhs of John Hookham Frere, in verse and prose, %oith 
Prefatory Memoir. Edited by his Nephews, H. and Sir Bartle Frere, and The Edin- 
burgh Kevieio for April, 1872, p. 47i5. 

t It will be i-emembered that these eminent persons were chosen by Lord 
Malmesbury to accompany him on his mission to Lille and were associated with 
him in the abortive negotiations for peace. 



XXVI POETRY OF THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 

By Moppeth's gait, important, proud and big— 

Bji Levesnn Gower's crop-imitating v:ig, 

That, could the pow'rs which in those numbers shine, 

Could that warm spirit animate my line, 

Your glorious deeds which huml)ly I rehearse — 

Your deeils should live immortal as my verse ; 

And, while they wonder'd whence I caught my flame. 

Your sons should blush to read their fathers' shame '. 

" Happily the eminent and accomplished sons of these fathers will smile, 
rather than blush, at this allusion to their sires, and smile the more when they 
remember from which side the attack proceeded. It is clear from the Answer, 
that, whilst the band were not a little ruffled, they had not the remotest suspicion 
that their assailant was a youth in his nineteenth year. Amongst other prefatory 
remarks they say : — 

" ' We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer which we have here 
the honour to address to him, contains our genuine and undisguised sentiments 
upon the merits of the poeui. 

" ' Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of this performance 
may possibly be as vague and unfounded as theirs are with regard to the 
Editors of The Anti -Jacobin. We are sorry that we cannot satisfy their 
curiosity upon this subject — but we have little anxiety for the gratification of 
our own. 

" ' It is only necessary to add, whati.s most con.scientiously the truth, that this 
production, such as it is, is 6// far ike Ust of all the attacks that the combined 
wits of the cause have been able to muster against The Anti-Jacobin.' 

" The Answer opens thus : — 

" ' Baud of the borrow'd lyre ! to whom belong 

The shreds and remnants of each hackney'd song ; 
^Vllose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore, 
And count but one good line, in eighty-four ! 
Whoe'er thou art, all hail 1 Thy bitter smile 
Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil ! ' 

" The ' one good line ' was ' By Leveson Gower's crop-imitating wig,' but the 
Epistle contains m.any equally good and some better. The .speculations as to 
its authorship afforded no slight amusement to the writer and his friends. . . . 

"New Morality is commonly regarded as the master-piece of The Anti-Jacobin ; 
and, with the exception of a few lines, the whole of it is by Canning. It ap- 
peared in the last number, and he is said to have concentrated all his energies 
for a parting blow. The reader who comes fresh from Dryden or Pope, or even 
Churchill, will be disappointed on finding far less variety of images, sparkling 
antithesis, or condensed brilliancy of expression. The author exhibits abundant 
humour and eloquence, but comparatively little wit ; i.e., if there be any truth 
in Sydney Smith's doctrine ' that the feeling of wit is occasioned by those 
relations of ideas which excite surprise, and surprise alone '. We are commonly 
prepared for what is coming, and our admiration is excited rather by the just- 
ness of the observations, the elevation of the thoughts, and the vigour of the 
style, than by a startling succession of flashes of fancy. If, as we believe, the 
same might be said of Juvenal, and the best of his English imitators, Johnson, 
we leave ample scope for praise ; and Neio Morality contains passages which have 
been preserved to our time and bid fair to reach posterity. How often are the 
lines on Candour quoted in entire ignorance or forgetfulness of their author. . . . 

" The drama of Th". Rorers, or Double Arrangement, was written to ridicule the 
German Drama, then hardly known in this country, except through the medium 
of bad translations of some of the least meritorious of Schiller's, Goethe's, 
and Kotzebue's productions. The parody is now principally remembered by 
Rogero's song, of which, Mr. Edmonds states, the first five stanzas were by 
Canning. "Having been accidentally seen, previously to its publication, by 
Pitt, he was so amused with it that he took a pen and composed the last stanza 
on the spot. ... 



CANNING AS A MAN OF LETTERS. XXVU 

" Canning's reputed share in The Rovers excited the unreasoning indignation, 
and provoked the exaggerated censure, of a man who has obtained a world-wide 
reputation by his historical researches, most especially by his skill in separating 
the true from the fabulous, and in tilling up chasms in national annals by a pro- 
cess near akin to that by which Cuvier inferred the entire form and structure 
of an extinct species from a bone. The following passage is taken from 
NiEBUHR'S History of the Period of the Revolution (published from his Lectures, in 
two volumes, in 1845) :— 

" ' Canning was at that time (1807) at the head of foreign affairs in England. 
History will not form the same judgment of him as that formed by contempo- 
raries. He had great talents, but was not a great Statesman ; he was one of 
those persons who distinguish themselves as the squires of political heroes. 
He was highly accomplished in the two classical languages, but without being 
a learned scholar. He was especially conversant with Greek writers. He had 
likewise poetical talent, but only for Satire. At first he had joined the leaders 
of opposition against Pitt's ministry : Lord Grey, who perceived his ambition, 
advised him, half in joke, to join the ministers, as he would make his fortune. 
He did so, and was eniployeil to ^vrite articles for the newspapers and satirical 
verses, which were often directed against his former benefactors. 

" ' Through the influence of the ministers he came into Parliament. So long 
as the great eloquence of former times lasted, and the great men were alive, his 
talent was admired ; but older persons had no great pleasure in his petulant, 
epigrammatic eloquence and his jokes, which were often in bad taste. He 
joined the Society of the Anti-Jacobins, which defended everything connected 
with existing institutions. This society published a journal, in which the most 
honoured names of foreign countries were attacked in the most scandalous 
manner. German literature was at that time little known in England, and it 
was associated there with the ideas of Jacol)inisui and revolution. Canning 
then published in The ^H(j-t/((to6ui, the most shameful pasquinade which was 
ever written against Germany, under the title of Matilda Pottingeu. Gottingen 
is described in it as the sink of all infamy ; professors and students as a gang of 
miscreants ; licentiousness, incest, and atheism as tlie chai'acter of the German 
people. Such was Canning's beginning : he was at all events useful, a sort of 
political Cossack' (Geschichte des Zeitalters der Revolution, vol. ii., p. :24ii). 

" ' Here am I,' exclaimed Raleigh, after vainly trying to get at the rights of 
a squabble in the courtyard of the Tower, ' employed in writing a true history 
of the world, when I cannot ascertain the truth of what happens under my 
own window.' Here is the great restorer of Roman history — who, by the \\ay, 
prided himself on his knowledge of England — hurrieil into the strangest 
misconception of contemporary events and personages, and giving vent to a series 
of depreciatory misstatements, without pausing to verify the assumed ground- 
work of his patriotic wrath. His description of ' the most shameful pasquinade," 
and his ignorance of the very title, prove that he had never seen it If he had, 
he would also have known that the scene is laid at Weimar, not at Gottingen, 
and that the satire is almost exclusively directed against a portion of the 
dramatic literature of his country, which all rational admirers must admit to be 
indefensible. The scene in The Rovers, in which the rival heroines, meeting for 
the first time at an inn, swear eternal friendship and embrace, is positively a 
feeble reflection of a scene in Goethe's Stdla ; and no anachronism can exceed 
that in Schiller's Cahal und Liebe. when Lady Milford, after declaring herself 
the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk who rebelled against Queen Elizabeth, is 
horrified on finding that the jewels sent her by the Grand Duke have been 
purchased by the sale of VOOO of his subjects to be employed in the American 
war."^ 

* It is surprising that the satirist's attention was not attracted to the scene 
in Stella, in which one of the heroines describes the rapid growth of her passion 
to its object: " I know not if you observed that you had enchained my interest 
from the first moment of our first meeting. I at least soon became .aware that 
your eyes sought mine. Ah, Fernando, then my uncle brought the music, you 
took your violin, and, as you played, my eyes rested upon you free from care. I 
studied every feature of your face ; and, during an unexpected pause, you fixed 



XXVlll POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

" Amongst the prose contributions to The Anti-Jacobin, there is one in which, 
indeiiendently of direct evidence, the peculiar humour of Canning is discernible, 
— the pretended report of the meeting of t\v Friends of Freedom at the Crown 
and Anchor Tavern.* The plan wus evidently suggested by Tickell's .<4rt(ici- 
pation, in wliich the debate on the Address at the opening of the Session was 
reported beforehand with such surprising foresight, that some of the speakers, 
who were thus forestalled, declined to deliver their meditated orations. 

"At the meeting of the Friends of Fi-eedom, Erskine, whose habitual 
egotism could hardly bs caricatured, is made to perorate as follows, &c. . . . 
A long speech is given to Mackintosh, who, under the name of Macjmigus, 
after a fervid sketch of the Temple of Freedom which he proposes to construct 
on the ruins of ancient establishments, proceeds with kindling animation, 
&c. . . .t 

"The wit and fun of these imitations are undeniable, and their injustice is 
equally so. Erskine, with all his egotism, was, and remains, the gi'eatest of 
English advocates. lie stemmed and turned the tide which threatened to 
sweep away the most valued of our free institutions in 1794 ; and (we say 
■with Lord Brougham) ' Before such a precious service as this, well may the 
lustre of statesmen and orators grow pale '. Mackintosh was pre-eminently 
distinguished by the comprehensiveness and moderation of his views ; nor could 
any man be less disposed by temper, habits, or pursuits towards revolutionary 
courses. His lectures on T/ie Law of Nature and Nations were especially directed 
against the new morality in general, and Godwin's Political Justice in particular. 

" At a long subsequent period (1807) Canning, when attacked in Parliament 
for his share in TKe Anti-Jacobin, declared that ' he felt no shame for its 
character or principles, nor any other sorrow for the share he had had in it 
than that whicli the imperfection of liis pieces was calculated to inspire '. Still, 
it is one of the inevitable inconveniences of a connection with the Press that 
the best known writers should be made answerable for the errors of their 
associates ; and the license of The Anti-Jacobin gave serious and well-founded 
offence to many who shared its opinions and wished well to its professed oViject. 
In WiLBERFORCE's Diary for May IS, 17it9, we find ' Pitt, Canning, and Pepper 
Arden came in late to dinner. I attacked Canning on indecency of Anti- 
Jacobin.' Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria, complains bitterly of the 
calumnious accounts given by The Anti-Jacobin of his early life, and asks with 
reason, ' Is it surprising that many good men remained longer than perhaps 
they otherwise would have done adverse to a party which encouraged and 
openly rewarded the autliors of such atrocious calunmies ? ' 

" Mr. Edmonds says that Pitt got frightened, and that the publication was 
discontinued at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. It is not unlikely that 
Canning, now a member of the House of Commons and Under-Secretary of 
State for Foreign Affairs, found his connection witli it embai-rassing, as his 
hopes rose and his political prospects expanded. Indeed, it may be questioned 
whether a Parliamentary career can ever be united with that of the daily or 
weekly journalist without compromising one or both. At all events, the 
original Anti-Jacobin closed with the number containing New Moralitij, and 
Canning had nothing to do with the montldi/ revieio started under the same 
name. " 

your eyes upon— upon me ! They met mine ! How I blushed, how I looked 
away ! You observed it, Fernando ; for from that moment I felt that you 
looked oftener over your music-book, often played out of tune, to the dis- 
turbance of my uncle. Every false note, Fernando, went to my heart. It was 
the sweetest confusion I ever felt in my life." 

* The whole of this jeu d'esprit has been claimed for Frere, but on unsatis- 
factory evidence. It is much more in Canning's way as a student of oratory, 
whicli Frere was not. 

[t See pages 32, 34.-Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN AS AN AID TO GOVERNMENT. 

[Considering The Anli-Jacobin from a national as well as a literary point of 
view, we cannot do better than nse a portion of an Essay on English Political 
Satires by the late Jas. Hannay, in the Quarterly Review, April, 1857.] 

". . . In the case of The Anti-Jacobin, what are we to say? A hundred 
opinions may be adopted respecting the Fi-ench Revolution. Some hate it with 
unmitigated hatred. Some regret it, but accept its consequences as beneficial 
to mankind on the whole. Some cherish its memory as a new political revela- 
tion of which they hope to see still further results. But a candid man of any 
of these persuasions must remember that the aim of The Anti-Jacobin was to 
keep Britain from revolution during 1797-8. It was therefore necessary to fight 
as our soldiers afterwards did in Spain— to wage such a literary war as suited 
the agitated spirit of Europe. While we blame Canning, therefore, for speaking 
as he did of Madame Roland, we must not forget the indecorum of her 
Memoirs, or that it was from persons of her party that vile aspersions were cast 
upon the character of Marie Antoinette. There were men quite ready to 
begin the same work over here that had been done in France, and that in a 
spirit of vulgar imitation, and under quite different circumstances. They had 
to be shot down like mad dogs ; for a cur, though contemptible in ordinary 
cases, becomes tragic when he has hydrophobia. 

" For The Anti- Jacobin must be claimed an honour which can be claimed for 
scarce one of the works we have passed under review. Let us waive the 
question how much we may have owed it for helping to inspire that unity and 
stout insular self-confidence which carried us tlirough the great war, — whole 
within and impervious without, Let us consider it only in a literary point of 
view, and we shall find it enjoying the rare distinction that its best Satires live 
in real popular remembrance. The Kni/e-Grinder, with his 

" ' Story ! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir,' 

is almost as widely known as our nursery rhymes. 

"But if The Anti-Jacobin excels all similar works in popularity, and in the 
eminence of its contributors, it also excels them in another important particular. 
It contains on the whole a greater number of really good things than any one 
of them. The Loves of the Triangles, in which, 

" ' Th' obedient Pulley strong Mechanics ply. 
And wanton Optics roll the melting eye ! ' 

is an irresistible parody, and likely to keep the original of Darwin [Loves of the 
Plants] in remembrance. Gray's Odes have survived the burlesques of Colman ; 
and the Covntry and City Mouse of Prior and ilontague is neglected by nine- 
tenths of those who read with admiration the Hind and the Panther. But 
Darwin's case is peculiar. Other poems live in spite of ridicule ; and his Loves 
of the Plants in consequence of it. The Attic salt of his enemies has preserved 
his reputation. 

" There is always a purpose in The Anti- Jacobin's view something more 
important than the mere persiflage that teases individuals. Like the blade of 
Damascus, which has a verse of the Koran engraved on it, its fine wit glitters 
terribly in the cause of sacied tradition." 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 



THE GIANT FACTOTUM AMUSING HIMSELF. (Frontispiece.) 

Pitt, with his right hand is playing at cup and ball ; the latter being 
a globe to denote his influence over foreign countries as well as at 
home. His right foot is supported by Dundas and Wilberforce, and 
is extended to be submissively kissed by his ministerial followers, fore- 
most of whom is Canning. With his left foot he has crushed the 
Opposition. On the same side is a document labelled "Resources for 
supporting the War," with a collection of coin, evidently destined for 
foreign subsidies. On his right side are various official returns of 
volunteers, seamen, regulars, and militia. He is thus prepared to 
carry on the war abroad, and maintain tranquillity at home. 

THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY ANB THE KNIFE-GRINDER. i/ 

Page 23 
Scene, the Borough of Southwark, with a portrait of George Tier- 
NEY, its able and radical representative. Published Dec. 4, 1797, as a 
graphic illustration of the Parody of Southey's poem. The Wkloio. 

LORD LONGBOW, THE ALARMIST, DISCOVERING THE MISE- ^ 
RIES OF IRELAND Page 78 

A characteristic portrait of the gallant and exxellent Earl of Moira, 
afterwards Marquis of Hastings, and Governor-General of India. 
The engraving is in ridicule of his complaint, in the House of Lords, 
of the cruelties exercised by the Government troops on the Irish 
Rebels. In the distance is seen INIoll C'oggin, an Irish witch, mounted 
on a black Ram with a blue tail, and on the hill an Oak-boy, carrying 
an uprooted oak, on the branches of which are numerous swans — in 
allusion to the unfounded nature of his charges. 

THE LOYAL TOAST Page 94 

Representing the Duke of Norfolk giving at a dinner at the Crown 
and Anchor Tavern in honour of the birth-day of Fox his famous toast, 
" Our Sovereign's Health— The Majesty of the People ". On the left is 
John Nicholls, Member for Tregony ; next to him is the DUKE OF 
Bedford ; on the other side of the table are Sheridan and Fox. 

DESIGN FOR THE NEW GALLERY OF BUSTS AND PICTURES. ^ 

Page 99 
The statue of Fox was placed between those of Demosthenes and 
Cicero, by the Kmpress Catherine of Russia, as a compHment to him 
for having successfully opposed the sending of the armament prepared 
loy Pitt, in conjunction with Prussia and Holland, to compel her to 
give up Ockzakow which she had seized. As this caricature, in- 
cluding the verses, was originally published in March, 1793, the latter 
in Tkt Anti-Jacobin must have been suggested by them. 



THE REPUBLICAN RATTLESNAKE FASCINATING THE BEDFORD 

SQUIRREL Page 285 

In allusion to the influence exercised by Fox over Francis, fifth 
Duke of Bedford, who had become one of the most zealous of the 
popular party. 



V 



PEOSPECTUS 

OF 

THE ANTI-JACOBIN; 

OR, 

WEEKLY EXAMINER, 



The First Number of which will be published on Monday, 
the 20th of November, 1797, to be contiaued every Monday 
during the sittmg of Parliament. Price 6d. 



Possit quid vivida virtus 

Experiure, licet : nee longe scilicet hostes 
Qucerendi. 
At a moment, v^hen whatever may be the habits of 
inquiry and the anxiety for information upon subjects 
of pubHc concern diffused among all ranks of people, the 
vehicles of intelligence are already multiplied in a pro- 
portion nearly equal to this encreased demand, and to 
the encreased importance and variety of matter, some 
apology may perhaps be necessary for the obtrusion of a 
new Paper upon the World; and some account may 
reasonably be expected of the views and principles on 
which it founds its pretensions to notice, before it can 
hope to make its way through the crowd of competitors 
which have gotten the start of it in the race for public 
favour. 

[As this Prospectus was written by Mr. Canning, and it has been prefixed 
only to the former edition of the Pontnj by the present Editor, it is again con- 
sidered an interesting addition to the present one.] 

1 



ii PROSPECTUS OF 

The grounds upon which such pretensions have 
usually been rested by those who have engaged in 
undertakings of this kind, are accuracy, variety, and 
priority of Intelligence, connections at home, corre- 
spondence abroad, and, above all, a profession of 
impartial and unprejudiced attention to all opinions, 
and to all parties and descriptions of men. 

On none of these Topicks is it Our intention to enlarge. 

Of Our means of information, and of the use which 
We make of them, our readers will, after a very short 
trial; be enabled to form their own opinion. And to 
that trial We confidently commit ourselves : professing, 
however, at the same time, that if the only advantage 
which We were desirous of holding but to our Eeaders, 
were that of having it in our power to apprize them an 
hour or a day sooner than those Journals, which are 
already in their hands, of any event however important 
— We should bring to the undertaking much less anxiety 
for success, and should state our claims on public atten- 
tion with much less boldness, than We are disposed to 
do in the consciousness of higher purposes, and more 
beneficial views. 

Novelty indeed We have to announce. For what so 
new in the present state of the daily and weekly Press 
(We speak generally, though there are undoubtedly 
exceptions which we may have occasion to point out 
hereafter) . as the Truth? To this object alone it is 
that Our labours are dedicated. It is the constant vio- 
lation, the disguise, the perversion of the Truth, whether 
in narrative or in argument, that will form the principal 
subject of our Weekly Examination : and it is by a 
diligent and faithful discharge of this duty — by detecting 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 6 

falsehood, and rectifying error, by correcting misrepresen- 
tation, and exposing and chastising mahgnity — that We 
hope to deserve the reception which We sohcit, and to 
obtain not only the approbation of the Country to our 
attempt, but its thanks for the motives which have given 
birth to it. 

These are strong words. But We are conscious of 
intending in earnest what they profess. How far the 
execution of our purpose may correspond with the design, 
it is for others to determine. It is ours to state that 
design fairly, and in the spirit in which we conceive it. 

Of the utility of such a purpose, if even tolerably 
executed, there can be little doubt, among those persons 
(a very large part of the community) who must have 
found themselves, during the course of the last few years, 
perplexed by the multiplicity of contradictory accounts of 
almost every material event that has occurred in that 
eventful and tremendous period ; and who must anxiously 
have wished for some public channel of information on 
which they could confidently rely for forming their 
opinion. 

But before We can expect sufficient credit from persons 
of this description, to enable us to supply such a defect, 
and to assume an office so important, it is natural that 
they should require some profession of our principles as 
well as of our purposes ; in order that they may judge 
not only of our ability to communicate the information 
which We promise, but of our intention to inform them 
aright. 

To that freedom from jiartialitij and prejudice, of which 
,We have spoken above, by the profession of which so 
many of our Contemporaries recommend themselves, We 



* PROSPECTUS OF 

make little pretension — at least in the sense in which 
those terms appear now too often to be used. 

We have not arrived (to our shame perhaps we avow 
it) at that wild and unshackled freedom of thought, 
which rejects all habit, all wisdom of former times, all 
restraints of ancient usage, and of local attachment ; 
and which judges upon each subject, w^hether of politicks 
or morals, as it arises, by lights entirely its own, without 
reference to recognized principle, or established practice. 

We confess, whatever disgrace may attend such a con- 
fession, that We have not so far gotten the better of the 
influence of long habits and early education, not so far 
imbibed that spirit of liberal indifference, of diffused and 
comprehensive philanthropy, which distinguishes the 
candid character of the present age, but that We have 
our feelings, our preferences, and our affections, attach- 
ing on particular places, manners, and institutions, and 
even on particular portions of the human race. 

It may be thought a narrow and illiberal distinction — 
but We avow ourselves to be partial to the Country in 
wMcJi we live, notwithstanding the daily panegyricks 
which we read and hear on the superior virtues and 
endowments of its rival and hostile neighbours. We are 
prejudiced in favour of lier Establishments, civil and 
religious ; though without claiming for either that ideal 
perfection, which modern philosophy professes to discover 
in the other more luminous systems which are arising 
on all sides of us. 

The safety and prosperity of these kingdoms, however 
unimportant they may seem iw abstract contemplation 
when compared with the more extensive, more beautiful, 
and more productive parts of the world, do yet excite in 



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our minds a peculiar interest and anxiety ; and will pro- 
bably continue to occupy a share of our attention by no 
means justified by the proportional consequence which 
speculative reasoners may think proper to assign fo them 
in the scale of the universe. 

We should be averse to hazarding the smallest part of 
the practical happiness of this Country; though the 
sacrifice should be recommended as necessary for accom- 
plishing throughout the world an uniform and beautiful 
system of theoretical liberty : and We should at all times 
exert our best endeavours for upholding its constitution, 
even with all the human imperfections which may belong 
to it, though We were assured that on its ruins might be 
erected the only pillar that is yet wanting to complete 
the '^most glorious fahric.h loliicli the Integrity and Wisdom 
of man have raised since tlie Creation ". 

If, as Philosopher Monge* avers, in his eloquent and 
instructive address to the Directory, " The Government 
of England and the French Eepnblick cannot exist together," 
We do not hesitate in our choice ; though well aware 
that in that choice we may be much liable, in the opinion 
of many critics of the present day, to the imputation of a 
want of candour or of discernment. 

[* A very eminent Mathematician and Physicist, and the 
inventor of descriptive geometry; born in 1746. In 1792 he 
was appointed Minister of Marine ; and afterwards took an 
active jjart in the eq[mpment of the Army. After founding the 
£cole Polytcchnique, he was sent into Italy to receive the 
pictures and statues seized by Buonaparte. He then joined 
the expedition to Egypt, and rendered great service both in the 
war operations and in the labours of the Egyptian Institute, 
the results of which were pubhshed by command of Napoleon 
in that magnificent and extensive work the DescriiMon de 
VEgyi)te. He died in 1818.— En.] 



6 PEOSPECTUS OF 

Admirers of military heroism, and dazzled by military 
success in common with other men, We are yet even here 
conscious of some qualification and distinction in our 
feelings : We acknowledge ourselves apt to look with 
more complacency on bravery and skill, when displayed 
in the service of our Country, than when We see them 
directed against its interests or its safety ; and, however 
equal the claims to admiration in either case may be. We 
feel our hearts grow warmer at the recital of what has 
been atchieved by Howe, by Jervis, or by Duncan, than 
at the ''glorious victory of Jemappe" or ''the immortal 
battle of the bridge of Lodi ". 

In Mobals We are equally old-fashioned. We have 
not yet learned the modern refinement of referring in all 
considerations upon human conduct, not to any settled 
and preconceived principles of right and wrong, not to 
any general and fundamental rules which experience, and 
wisdom, and justice, and the common consent of man- 
kind have established, but to the internal admonitions of 
every man's judgment or conscience in his own particular 
instance. 

We do not dissemble, — that We reverence Law, — We 
acknowledge Usage, — We look even upon Peescbiption 
without hatred or horror. And we do not think these, 
or any of them, less safe guides for the moral actions of 
men, than that new and liberal system of Ethics, whose 
operation is not to bind but to loosen the bands of social 
order ; whose doctrine is formed not on a system of recip- 
rocal duties, but on the supposition of individual, inde- 
pendent, and unconnected rights ; which teaches that all 
men are pretty equally honest, but that some have 
different notions of honesty from others, and that the 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 7' 

most received notions are for the greater part the most 
faulty. 

We do not subscribe to the opinion, that a sincere con- 
viction of the truth of no matter what principle, is a suffi- 
cient defence for no matter what action ; and that the 
only business of moral enquiry with human conduct is to 
ascertain that in each case the principle and the action 
agree. We have not yet persuaded ourselves to think it 
a sound, or a safe doctrine, that every man who can 
divest himself of a moral sense in theory, has a right to 
be with impunity and without disguise a scoundrel in 
practice. It is not in our creed, that Atheism is 
as good a faith as Christianity, provided it be pro- 
fessed with equal sincerity ; nor could we admit it 
as an excuse for Murder, that the murderer was in 
his own mind conscientiously persuaded that the 
murdered might for many good reasons be better out 
of the way. 

Of all these and the like principles, in one word, of 
JACOBINISM in all its shapes, and in all its degrees, 
political and moral, public and private, whether as it 
openly threatens the subversion of States, or gradually 
saps the foundations of domestic happiness, We are the 
avowed, determined, and irreconcileable enemies. We 
have no desire to divest ourselves of these inveterate 
prejudices ; but shall remain stubborn and incorrigible in 
resisting every attempt which may be made either by 
argument or (what is more in the charitable spirit of 
modern reformers) by force, to convert us to a different 
opinion. 

It remains only to speak of the details of our Plan. 



8 PBOSPECTUS OF 

It is our intention to publish Weekly, during the Ses- 
sion of Parliament, a Paper, containing, 

First, An Abstract of the important events of the 
week, both at home and abroad. 

Secondly, Such Eeflections as may naturally arise 
out of them : and. 

Thirdly, A contradiction and confutation of the false- 
hoods and misrepresentations concerning these events, 
their causes, and their consequences, which may be found 
in the Papers devoted to the cause of Sedition and 
Irbeligion, to the pay or principles of France. 

This last, as it is by far the most important, will in all 
probability be the most copious of the three heads ; and 
is that to which, above all others. We wish to direct the 
attention of our Eeaders. 

We propose diligently to collect, as far as the range of 
our own daily reading will enable us, and we promise 
willingly to receive, from whatever quarter they may 
come, the several articles of this kind which require to 
be thus contradicted or confuted ; which will naturally 
divide themselves into different classes, according to their 
different degrees of stupidity or malignity. 

There are, for instance (to begin with those of the 
highest order), the Lies of the Week ; the downright, 
direct, unblushing falsehoods, which have no colour or 
foundation whatever, and which must at the very moment 
of their being written, have been known to the writer to 
be wholly destitute of truth. 

Next in rank come Misrepresentations which, 
taking for their ground-work facts in substance true, do 
so colour and distort them in description, as to take away 
all semblance of their real nature and character. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 9 

Lastly, The most venial, though by no means the least 
mischievous class, are Mistakes ; under which descrip- 
tion are included all those Hints, Conjectures, and Ap- 
prehensions, those Anticipations of Sorrow and Depre- 
cations of Calamity, in which Writers who labour under 
too great an anxiety for the Public Welfare are apt to 
indulge ; and which, when falsified by the event, they are 
generally too much occupied to find leisure to retract or 
disavow : — A trouble which We shall have great pleasure 
in taking off these Gentlemen's hands. 

To each of these several articles We shall carefully 
affix the name and date of the Publication from which 
We may take the liberty of borrowing it. 

With regard to the Proceedings in Parliament, 
We shall not fail to mark to Our Eeaders the progress of 
the public business ; though it does not enter into our 
Plan to give a regular detail of the Debates : nor would 
the limits of our Paper allow of it. 

We have a further reason for not occupying this pro- 
vince, which will equally account for our determination, 
not to receive Advertisements — our earnest desire not to 
lessen the circulation of any existing Public Print. 

It is obvious upon every ground of fairness and of 
policy, that We must entertain this desire very strongly 
with regard to the respectable Papers which are directed 
by principles and attachments like our own : an attach- 
ment (We have no wish to disguise it) to the cause of a 
Government, with whose support, whose popularity and 
consequent means of exertion, the circumstances of the 
present times have essentially connected the existence of 
THIS Country as an independent Nation. 



10 PROSPECTUS OF 

As little should we wish to circumscribe the sale of 
those Journals, upon whose errors or perverseness, upon 
whose false statements and pernicious doctrines We 
reckon for the main support, as they have been the 
principal cause of our undertaking. These We would 
entreat to proceed with fresh vigour and increased 
activity. It is our wish to be seen together, and to be 
compared with them. Every week of misrepresentation 
will be followed by its weekly comment ; and with this 
corrective faithfully administered, the longest course of 
Morning Chronicles or Morning Posts, of Stars or 
Couriers, may become not only innocent but beneficial. 

With these views then We commence our undertaking. 
Whatever may be the success or the merit of its execution 
in our hands, the want of something like it has so long been 
felt and deplored by all thinking and honest men, that 
We cannot doubt of the approbation and encouragement 
with which the attempt will be received. 

We claim the support, and We invite the assistance, 
of ALL, who think with us that the circumstances and 
character of the age in which We live require every exer- 
tion of every man, who loves his country in the old way, 
in which till of late years the love of one's country was 
professed by most men, and by none disclaimed or 
reviled ; of all who think that the Press has been long 
enough employed principally as an engine of destruction, 
and who wish to see the experiment fairly tried whether 
that engine, by which many of the States which surround 
us have been overthrown, and others shaken to their 
foundations, may not be turned into an instrument of 
defence for the one remaining Country which has Estab- 
lishments to protect, and a Government with the spirit, 



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11 



and the power, and the wisdom to protect them ; of all 
who look with respect to pubUc honour, and with attach- 
ment to the decencies of private life ; of all who have so 
little deference for the arrogant intolerance of Jacobinism 
as still to contemplate the office and the person of a 
King with veneration, and to speak reverently of Ee- 
LiGiON, without apologizing for the singularity of their 
opinions ; of all who think the blessings which we enjoy 
valuable, and who think them in danger ; and who, while 
they detest and despise the principles and the professors 
of that NEW FAITH by which the foundations of all those 
blessings are threatened to be undermined, lament the 
lukewarmness with which its propagation has hitherto 
been resisted, and are anxious, while there is yet time, 
to make every effort in the cause of their country. 



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POETEY 



OF 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



No. I. 

INTEODUCTION. 

Nov. 20, 1797. 

In our anxiety to provide for the amusement as well as 
information of our readers, we have not omitted to 
make all the inquiries in our power for ascertaining the 
means of procuring poetical assistance. And it would 
give us no small satisfaction to be able to report that we 
had succeeded in this point precisely in the manner which 
would best have suited our own taste and feelings, as 
well as those which we wish to cultivate in our readers. 

But whether it be that good Morals, and what we 
should call good Politics, are inconsistent with the spirit 
of true Poetry — whether ^Hlie Muses still roith freedom 
found" have an aversion to regular governments, and 
require a frame and system of protection less complicated 
than king, lords, and commons : — 

" Whether primordial nonsense springs to life* 
In the wild war of democratic strife," 

and there only — or for whatever other reason it may be, 
whether physical, or moral, or philosophical (which last 

[* Parodied from Pa;)'ne Ivnight's poem, " The Progress of 
Civil Society," which is admirably ridiculed in No. XV. 2^ost. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 13 

is understood to mean something more than the other 
two, though exactly what, it is difficult to say), we have 
not been able to find one good and true Poet, of sound 
principles and sober practice, upon whom we could rely 
for furnishing us with a handsome quantity of sufficient 
and approved verse — such verse as our readers might be 
expected to get by heart, and to sing; as the worthy 
philosopher Mongb describes the little children of Sparta 
and Athens singing the songs of Freedom, in expectation 
of the coming of the Great Nation. 

In this difficulty we have had no choice but either to 
provide no poetry at all — a shabby expedient — or to go 
to the only market where it is to be had good and ready 
made, that of the Jacobins — an expedient full of danger, 
and not to be used but with the utmost caution and 
delicacy. 

To this latter expedient, however, after mature 
deliberation, we have determined to have recourse ; 
qualifying it at the same time with such precautions as 
may conduce at once to the safety of our readers' 
principles, and to the improvement of our own poetry. 

For this double purpose, we shall select from time to 
time from among those effusions of the Jacobin Muse 
which happen to fall in our way, such pieces as may 
serve to illustrate some one of the principles on which 
the poetical as well as the political doctrine of the New 
School is established— prefacing each of them, for our 
readers' sake, with a short disquisition on the particular 
tenet intended to be enforced or insinuated in the produc- 
tion before them — and accompanying it with an humble 
effort of our own, in imitation of the poem itself, and in 
further illustration of its principle. 



14 POETRY OF 

By these means, though we cannot hope to catch " tlie 
ivood-notes 'wild" oi the Bards of Freedom, we may yet 
acquh-e, by dint of repeating after them, a more complete 
knowledge of the secret. in which their greatness lies than 
we could by mere prosaic admiration ; and if we cannot 
become poets ourselves, we at least shall have collected 
the elements of a Jacohin Art of Poetry for the use of 
those whose genius may be more capable of turning them 
to advantage. 

It might not be unamusing to trace the springs and 
principles of this species of poetry, which are to be fo-und, 
some in the exaggeration, and others in the direct inver- 
sion of the sentiments and passions which have in all 
ages animated the breast of the favourite of the Muses, 
and distinguished him from the "vulgar throng ". 

The poet in all ages has despised riches and grandeur. 

The Jacobin poet improves this sentiment into a hatred 
of the rich and the great. 

The poet of other times has been an enthusiast in the 
love of his native soil. 

The Jacohin poet rejects all restriction in his feelings. 
His love is enlarged and expanded so as to comprehend 
all human kind. The love of all human kind is without 
doubt a noble passion : it can hardly be necessary to 
mention that its operation extends to freemen, and them 
only, all over the world. 

The old poet was a warrior, at least in imagination ; 
and sung the actions of the heroes of his country in 
strains which "made Ambition Virtue," and which over- 
whelmed the horrors of war in its glory. 

The Jacol)in poet would have no objection to sing 
iDattles too — but lie would take a distinction. The 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 15 

prowess of Buonaparte, indeed, be might chant in his 
loftiest strain of exultation. There we should find no- 
thing but trophies and triumphs and branches of laurel 
and olive, phalanxes of Eepublicans shouting victory, 
satellites of despotism biting the ground, and geniuses of 
Liberty planting standards on mountain-tops. 

But let his own country triumph, or her allies obtain 
an advantage : straightway the " beauteous face of war " 
is changed ; the " pride, pomp, and circumstance " of 
victory are kept carefully out of sight, and we are 
presented with nothing but contusions and amputations, 
plundered peasants, and deserted looms. Our poet 
points the thunder of his blank verse at the head of the 
recruiting serjeant, or roars in dithyrambics against the 
lieutenants of pressgangs. 

But it would be endless to chase the coy Muse of 
Jacobinism through all her characters. Mille hahet orna- 
ttis. The Alille decenter hahet is perhaps |more question- 
able. For in whatever disguise she appears, whether of 
mirth or of melancholy, of piety or of tenderness ; under 
all disguises, like Sir John Brute in woman's clothes, she 
is betrayed by her drunken swagger and ruffian tone. 

In the poem which we have selected for the edification 
of our readers and our own imitation this day, the 
principles which are meant to be inculcated speak so 
plainly for themselves, that they need no previous 
introduction. 



16 POETRY OF 

INSCEIPTION* 

For the Apartment in Chepstow Castle, where Henry Marten, the 
Regicide, ivas imprisoned thirty years. 

For thirty years secluded from mankind 

Here Marten lingered. Often have these walls 

Echoed his footsteps, as with even tread 

He paced around his prison : not to him 

Did Nature's fair varieties exist ; 

He never saw the sun's delightful beams, 

Save when through yon high bars he pour'd a sad 

And broken splendour. Dost thou ask his crime ? 

He had eebell'd against the King, and sat 

In judgment on him ; for his ardent mind 

Shaped goodliest plans of happiness on earth. 

And peace and liberty. Wild dreams ! but such 

As Plato loved ; such as with holy zeal 

Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes ! awhile 

From man withheld, even to the latter days 

When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd ! 



imitation. 
INSCEIPTION 

For the Door of the Cell in Newgate, where Mrs. Broionrigg, the 
' Prentice-cidc, ivas confined previous to her Execution. 

For one long term, or e'er her trial came. 
Here Brownrigg linger'd. Often have these cells 
Echoed her blasphemies, as with shrill voice 
She screamed for fresh Geneva. Not to her 
Did the blithe fields of Tothill, or thy street, 

[* By SOUTHEY.— Ed.] 



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St. Giles, its fair varieties expand ; 

Till at the last, iu slow-drawn cart she went 

To execution. Dost thou ask her crime? 

She whipp'd two female 'prentices to death, 

And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind 

Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! 

Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine 

Of the Orthyan goddess he hade flog 

The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised 

Our Milton when at college. For this act 

Did Brownrigg swing. Harsh laws ! But time shall 

come 
When France shall reign, and laws be all repeal'd ! 

[Mrs. Elizabeth Brownrigg was executed at Tyburn on Monday, 14th Sept., 
1767, for murdering one of her apprentices, Mary Clifford.— Ed.] 

[Henry Marten was one of the most interesting and remarkable of the 
Regicides, not only from his abilities and consistent honesty, but from the 
elegance of his manners, his wit, and the fascinating gaiety of his conversation ; 
and, moreover, from his humane disposition and generosity to fallen foes. 
His private life, however, was disgraced by the most reckless debauchery, 
which might seem more appropriate in such libertines as Rochester and Sedley 
than in a coadjutor of the strict Puritan party. But from a note in Grey's 
edition of Hadibrw, pt. ii., ch. i., p. 313, it would appear that the general 
opinion at that time was that profligacy of a pronounced character was indulged 
in privately by more than a few of that sanctimoniotis sect. 

He was the son of Sir Henry Marten, LL.D., a loyal Judge of the 
Admiralty. After receiving a learned education at Oxford, he entered one of 
the Inns of Court, and travelled in France. Having a stake in Berkshire — for he 
inherited a property of £3000 a year, besides several thousand pounds in money — 
he was elected, 1(540, one of the members for the county in the last two Parlia- 
ments of King Charles I. His chief seat was at Becket, iu the parish of Shriven- 
ham. He afterwards obtained a grant of £1000 a year to him and his heirs out 
of the forfeited estates of the Duke of Buckingham. His early marriage with a 
rich widow, selected by his father, but not affected by himself, also benefited 
his finances. 

From the commencement of the Civil Wars he was a violent Republican ; 
and as early as 1643 openly expressed his opinion of the desirability of the 
destruction of the King and his children, for which rather premature advice 
he was expelled the House of Commons, and underwent a short imprisonment 
in the Tower. He was appointed by the House of Commons a Colonel of 
Horse and Goveinor of Reading, but made less mark as a soldier than as a 
rapacious spoiler of the adherents of the King, which earned him the oppro- 
bnous nickname of " Plunder-master General". 

Being empowered to dispose of the Regalia and royal trappings, he once 
invested George Wither — who had been made one of Cromwell's Major- 
Generals— with them, and so accoutred induced the old Poet to strut up and 
down Westminster Abbey to the scandal of right-thinking people. 

2 



18 POETRY OF 



To him also were refevrecl the alterations in the public arms, the Great 
Seal, and the legends upon the money. Upon the latter was a shield bearing 
the cross of St. George, encircled by a palm and olive branch, and inscribed 
The Cninmonirtalt/c of Biigkuul, and on the reverse, God with m.«, lOltS ; which 
occasioned the remark "that God and the Commonwealth were not on the 
same side ". 

Nothing apparently could damp the ill-timed jocosity too often prevalent in 
those troublous times, for at Marten's trial, ICth October, 16i!0, Ewer, who 
had been his servant, swore that "at the signing of the warrant for the 
King's execution Ue did see a pen in Mr. Cromwell's hand, and he marked 
Mr. Marten in the face with it, and Mr. Marten did the like to him ". But 
many of his excesses were condoned in the eyes of both his friends and enemies 
by his generous and humane spirit. 

D'Israeli, in his Commentaries on the Life and lieif/n of Charles J., describes 
the ingenious way in which Marten saved the life of David Jenkins, a loyal 
and obstinate Welsh judge, who, when brought to the bar of the House of 
Commons to answer for imprisoning several persons for bearing arms against 
the King, peremptorily disowned their jurisdiction, and defied them in the 
following bold terms : " ' But, Mr. Speaker, since you and this House have 
renounced your allegiance to your Sovereign, and are become a den of thieve.^, 
should I bow myself in this House of Rimmon the Lord would not pardon nie '. 
The whole House were electrified. . . . He was voted guilty of high treason 
without any trial. The day of execution was then debated. Harry Marten, 
who had not yet spoken, rose, not to dissent from the vote of the House, he 
observed, but he had something to say about the time of the execution. 
' Mr. Speaker,' said he, ' everyone must believe that this old gentleman here 
is fully possessed in his head resolved to die a martyr in his cause, for other- 
wise he would never have provoked the House by such biting expressions. If 
you execute him, you do precisely that which he hopes for, and his execution 
will have a great influence over the people, since he is condemned without a 
jury. I therefore move that we should suspend the day of execution, and in 
meantime force him to live in spite of his teeth.' The drollery of the motion 
put the House into better humour, and he was reprieved. After being kept in 
various prisons for eleven years, he was released by Cromwell, and died in 1663, 
aged eighty-one." 

Another instance may be given of Marten's felicitous humour and humane 
temper. When the Commons had rid themselves of the Sovereign, the;/ coted 
the Lords to he dangerous and useless. But MARTEN proposed an amendment in 
their favour ; namely, that they loere useless, but not deingerous. 

His speeches in the House were represented to have been not long, "but 
wondrous poynant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceedingly apt in apt 
instances ; he alone hath sometimes turned the whole House." 

He wrote several tracts on parliamentary subjects, and Verses on the Death 
of his Nephew, Cliarles Edmonds, 7thJidii, IdJl, ivt. 30. But the most amusing of 
the publications bearing his name is one entitled Familieir Letters to his Lady of 
Delight; also her kinde Returnes : with his Rivedl R. Ptttingall's Heroiecdl Epistles. 
Printed by Edmundus de Speciosa Villa [i.e., Edmund Gayton]. Bellositi 
Dobunonini [Oxford], 1662 and 1663, 4to. Another edition, with additions, appeared 
in 1685. "These epistles," says D'Israeli, " paint to the life the loose habits 
and cspiegleries of this witty profligate ; and I think they have been referred to 
by some inconsiderate writers as a genuine correspondence." They were pro- 
bably altogether concocted by Gayton. He was severely attacked in various 
scurrilous lampoons, some of which are printed among the Rump Songs, 1662. 

On his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to death ; but the good 
feeling created among many who had in his prospeious days enjoyed his 
society and hospitality, and even among many of his former opponents by his 
generous treatment of them when in dangei-, stood him in good stead, and it 
was by a well-timed and humorous appeal to the Judges — such as he himself 
might have used— that his life was saved. Henry, fourth Viscount Falkland, 
whose virtuous and heroic father fell at the first Battle of Newbury while 
fighting for the King, said to the Judges : " Gentlemen, ye talk here of making 
a sacrijice : it was old law that all sacrifices were to be without spot or blemish ; 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



19 



and now you are going to make an old rotten rascal a sacrifice ". This piece of 
wit pleased his Judges, and his sentence was commuted to imprisonment for 
life. He was confined in Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, for twenty years, 
and died in September, 1680, aged seventy-eight. 

He must have felt some contrition for his vicious life, for some time before 
his death he made this epitaph, by way of acrostic, on himself ; 

H ere, or elsewhere (all's one to you, to me), 
E arth, air, or water gripes my ghostly dust, 
N one knowing when brave fire shall set it free. 
R eader, if you an oft tryed rule will trust, 
Y ou'll gladly do and suffer what you must. 

M y life was worn with serving you and you, 

A nd now death's my pay, it seems, and welcome too. 

R avenge destroying but itself, while I 

T o birds of prey leave my old cage, and fly. 

K xaniples preach to the eye, care (then mine says) 

N ot how you end, but how you spend your days. 

" In Cromwell's time Chepstow C.4.stle served as a place of imprisonment 
for Jeremy Taylor ; and, after the Restoration, it leceived a less illustrious 
occupant in the person of Harry Marten, the Regicide, whose imprisonment 
here has attracted more than its share of notice in consequence of the foolish 
lines written by Southey in his days of republicanism and pantisocracy, but 
which are as untrue in fact as they are mischievous in sentiment. As to the fact, 
it is notorious that Marten— at all events after the first few years of his 
imprisonment — was little more than a prisoner on parole ; allowed to visit the 
neighbouring gentry, and occupying at Chepstow Castle, with his family and 
servants, spacious and comfortable apartments in the tower which still bears 
his name. As to the sentiment, the lines received their best antidote in the 
clever parody of Canning and Frere in The Anti-Jacobin." — Anneda of Chexistow 
CaMlr, by J. P. Marsh, 1883 ; 4to. 




20 POETKY OF 



No. II. 



Nov. 27, 1797. 
In the specimen of Jacobin Poetry which we gave in 
our last number was developed a principle, perhaps one 
of the most universally recognised in the Jacobin creed ; 
namely, " that the animadversion of human law upon 
Jmman actions is for the most part nothing but fp'oss 
oppression ; and that, in all cases of the administration of 
criminal justice, the truly benevolent mind will consider 
only the severity of the punishment, without any reference 
to the maliijniti/ of the crime ". This principle has of late 
years been laboured with extraordinary industry, and 
brought forward in a variety of shapes, for the edification 
of the public. It has been inculcated in bulky quartos, 
and illustrated in popular novels. It remained only to 
fit it with a poetical dress, which had been attempted in 
the Inscription for Chepstow Castle, and which (we 
flatter ourselves) was accomplished in that for Mrs. 
Brownrigg's Cell. 

Another principle, no less devoutly entertained, and no 
less sedulously disseminated, is the natural arid eternal 
warfare of the poor and the rich. In those orders and 
gradations of society, which are the natural result of the 
original difference of talents and of industry among man- 
kind, the Jacobin sees nothing but a graduated scale of 
violence and cruelty. He considers every rich man as 
an oppressor, and every person in a lower situation as 
the victim of avarice, and the slave of aristocratieal 
insolence and contempt. These truths he declares 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 21 

loudly, not to excite compassion, or to soften the con- 
sciousness of superiority in the higher, but for the pur- 
pose of aggravating discontent in the inferior orders. 

A human being, in the lowest state of penury and dis- 
tress, is a treasure to the reasoner of this cast. He con- 
templates, he examines, he turns him in every possible 
light, with a view of extracting from the variety of his 
wretchedness new topics of invective against the pride of 
property. He, indeed (if he is a true Jacobin), refrains 
from relievliig the object of his compassionate contempla- 
tion ; as well knowing that every diminution from the 
general mass of human misery must proportionably 
diminish the force of his argument. 

This principle is treated at large by many authors. It 
is versified in sonnets and elegies without end. We 
trace it particularly in a poem by the same author 
[SoutheyJ from whom we borrowed our former illustra- 
tion of the Jacobin doctrine of crimes and punishments. 
In this poem, the pathos of the matter is not a little 
relieved by the absurdity of the metre. We shall not 
think it necessary to transcribe the whole of it, as our 
imitation does not pretend to be so literal as in the last 
instance, but merely aspires to convey some idea of the 
manner and sentiment of the original. One stanza, how- 
ever, we must give, lest we should be suspected of paint- 
ing from fancy, and not from life. 

The learned reader will perceive that the metre is 
Sapphic, and affords a fine opportunity for his scanning 
and proving, if he has not forgotten them. 

Cold was the night wind ; drifting fast the sn5ws fell ; 
Wl:le wgre the downs, and shelterless and naked : 



22 POETEY OF 

When a poor wand'rer struggled on her journey, 
Weary and way-sore.* 

[* The original poem, by Southey, is here subjoined : — 
THE WIDOW. 



Cold was the night wind ; drifting fast the snows fell ; 
Wide were the downs, and shelterless and naked ; 
When a poor wand'rer struggled on her journey, 
Weary and way-sore. 

Drear were the downs, more dreary her reflections ; 
Cold was the night wind, colder was her bosom : 
She had no home, the world was all before her, 
She had no shelter. 

Fast o'er the heath a chariot rattled by her : 
" Pity me ! " feebly cried the poor night wanderer. 
" Pity me, strangers ! lest with cold and hunger 
Here I should perish. 

. "Once I had friends — but they have all forsook me ! 
• Once I had parents — they are now in heaven ! 
I had a home once — I had once a hiisband — 
Pity me, strangers ! 

" I had a home once — I had once a husband — 
I am a widow, poor and broken-hearted ! " 
Loud blew the wind, unheard was her complaining ; 
On drove the chariot. 

Then on the snow she laid her down to rest her ; 
She heard a horseman : " Pity me ! " she groaned out. 
Loud was the wind, unheard was her complaining; 
On went the horseman. 

Worn out with anguish, toil, and cold and hunger, 
Down sunk the wanderer ; sleep had seized her senses 
Thei'e did the traveller find her in the morning — 
God had released her.] 
1796. 




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THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 23 

This is enough ; unless the reader should wish to be 
informed how 

Fast o'er the bleak heath rattling drove a chariot ; 
Or how, not long after, 

Loud blew the wind, finheard was her complaining — 
On went the horseman. 
We proceed to give our Imitation, which is of the 
Amcehcean or Colloadory kind. 

SAPPHICS. 

the friend of humanity and the knife-grinder. 

Friend of Humanity.''' 

" Needy Knife-grinder ! whither are you going? 
Eough is the road, your wheel is out of order — 
Bleak blows the blast ; your hat has got a hole in't, 

So have your breeches ! 

" Weary Knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones, 
Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike- 
-road, what hard work 'tis crying all day " Knives and 

Scissars to grind ! " 

'^ Tell me. Knife-grinder, how you came to grind knives ? 
Did some rich man tyrannically use you ? 

[* George Tierney, M.P. for Southwark, who in early times 
was among the more forward of the Eeforniers. " He was," 
says Lord Brougham, " an assiduous member of the Society of 
Friends of the People, and drew up the much and jiistly celebrated 
Petition in which that useful body laid before the House of 
Commons all the more striking particulars of its defective title 
to the office of representing the people, which that House then, 
as now, but with far less reason, assumed." Notwithstanding 
the above severe verses, Tierney served luider Canning as 
Master of the Mint, during the latter's short administration in 
1827.— Ed.] 



24 POETRY OF 

Was it the squire ? or parson of the parish ? 

Or the attorney ? 
" Was it the squire, for kiUing of his game? or 
Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? 
Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your httle 

All in a lawsuit ? 
" (Have you not read the Eights of Man, by Tom Paine?) 
Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, 
Eeady to fall, as soon as you have told your 

Pitiful story." 
Knipe-Grinder. 
" Story ! God bless you ! I have none to tell, sir, 
Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, 
This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were 

Torn in a scuffle. 
" Constables came up for to take me into 
Custody ; they took me before the justice ; 
Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish- 

- Stocks for a vagrant. 
" I should be glad to drink your Honour's health in 
A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence ; 
But for my part, I never love to meddle 

With politics, sir." 
Friend of Humanity. 
" / give thee sixpence ! I will see thee damned first — 
Wretch ! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to ven- 
geance — 
Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded. 

Spiritless outcast ! " 
[Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport 
of Ecpubliam enthusiasm and universal philanthroinj.'] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN, 25 



No. III. 

Nov. 30, 1797. 
We have received the following from a loyal corre- 
spondent, and we shall be very happy at any time to be 
relieved, by communications of a similar tendency, from 
the drudgery of Jacobinical imitations. 



THE INVASION;* 

OR, THE BBITISH WAR SONG. 
To the Tune of " Whilst happy in my native land ". 

I. 

Whilst happy in our native land, 

So great, so famed in story, 
Let's join, my friends, with heart and hand 

To raise our country's glory : 
When Britain calls, her valiant sons 

Will rush in crowds to aid her — 
Snatch, snatch your muskets, prime your guns, 

And crush the fierce invader ! 

Whilst every Briton's song shall be, 
" give us Death — or Victory ! " 

[* In Feb., 1797, about 1400 Frenchmen landed at Pembroke, 
but surrendered without resistance to the country people, whom 
Lord Cawdor (who had been elevated to the Peerage in the 
preceding year) had armed with scj'thes and pitchforks. He 
was succeeded by his elder son, who was created Earl Cawdor 
in 1827, and died I860.— Ed.] 



26 . POETEY OF 



II. 



Long had this favour'd isle enjoy'd 

True comforts, past expressing, 
When France her helhsh arts employ'd 

To rob us of each blessing : 
These from our hearths by force to tear 

(Which long we've learned to cherish) 
Our frantic foes shall vainly dare ; 

We'll keep 'em or we'll perish — 
And every day our song shall be, 
"0 give us Death — or Victory ! " 

III. 

Let France in savage accents sing 

Her bloody Eevolution ; 
We prize our country, love our king, 

Adore our constitution ; 
For these we'll every danger face, 

And quit our rustic labours ; 
Our ploughs to firelocks shall give place ; 

Our scythes be changed to sabres ; 
And clad in arms, our song shall be, 
" O give us Death — or Victory ! " 

IV. 

Soon shall the proud invaders learn, 
When bent on blood and plunder, 

That British bosoms nobly burn 
To brave their cannon's thunder : 

Low lie those heads, whose wily arts 
Have plann'd the world's undoing ! 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 27 

Our vengeful blades shall reach those hearts 
Which seek our country's ruin ; 

And night and morn our song shall be, 
" give us Death — or Victory ! " 

V. 

When, with French blood our fields manured, 

The glorious struggle's ended, 
We'll sing the dangers we've endured, 

The blessings we've defended : 
O'er the full bowl our feats we'll tell, 

Each gallant deed reciting ; 
And weep o'er those who nobly fell 

Their country's battle fighting — 
And ever thence our song shall be, 
" 'Tis Valouk leads to Victoky ". 



[The following Song which furnished the hints for the one 
above was written by Miles Peter Andrews, M.P. for 
Bewdley, and a dealer in gimpowder ; but his Plays, Prologues, 
Verses, &c., by no means resemble so active a composition. 
He, with other members of the '^ Delia Crusca," was savagely 
attacked and extinguished by W. Gifford in " T/ie Baviad". 
His song was set to music by Sir Henry Bishop. He died in 
1814. 

I. 
Whilst happy in my native land 
I boast my coimtry's charter, 
I'll never basely lend my hand 

Her liberties to bai'ter. 
The noble mind is not at all 

By poverty degraded ; 
'Tis guilt alone can make us fall, 
And well am I persuaded. 

Each free-born Briton's song should be, 
"Oh! give me Death or Liberty!" 



28 POETRY OF 



Though small the pow'r which Fortune grants, 

And few the gifts she sends us, 
The lordly hireling often wants 

That freedom which defends us. 
By laAV secur'd from lawless strife, 

Our house is our cnstellum ; 
Thus, blessed with all that's dear in life. 
For lucre shall we sell 'em ? 

No, — ev'ry Briton's song should be, 
"Oh! give me Death or Liberty!" 

Ed. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 29 



No. IV. 

Dec. 4, 1797. 
We have been favoured with the following specimen 
of Jacobin Poetry, which we give to the world without 
any comment or imitation. We are informed (we know 
not how truly) that it will be sung at the meeting of the 
Friends of Freedom ; an account of which is anticipated 
in our present paper.* 

LA SAINTE GUILLOTINE. 

ATTEMPTED FBOJM THE FBENCH. 

Tune — " O'er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France ". 

I. 
From the blood-bedew'd valleys and mountains of France, 
See the Genius of Gallic invasion advance ! 
Old ocean shall waft her, unruffled by storm, 
While our shores are all lined with the ''Friends of he- 
form ".t 
Confiscation and Murder attend in her train, 
With meek-eyed Sedition, the daughter of Paine ; :|: 
While her sportive Poissardes with light footsteps are 

seen 
To dance in a ring round the gay Guillotine. § 

[* This account will be found on p. 32, et seq. — Ed.] 

f See proclamation of the Directory. 

J The "too long calumniated author of the Rights of Man". — 
See a Sir Something Burdett's speech at the Shakspeare, as 
referred to in the Courier of Nov. 30. 

§ The Guillotine at Arras was, as is well known to every 
Jacobin, painted " Cotdeur de Rose ". 



30 POETRY OF 

II. 

To London, " the rich, the defenceless"* she comes — 
Hark ! my boys, to the sound of the Jacobin drums ! 
See Corruption, Prescription, and Privilege fly, 
Pierced through by the glance of her blood-darting eye. 
While patriots, from prison and prejudice freed, 
In soft accents shall lisp the Eepublican creed, 
And with tri-colour'd fillets, and cravats of green, 
Shall crowd round the altar of Saint Guillotine. 

III. 
See the level of Freedom sweeps over the land— 
The vile Aristocracy's doom is at hand ! 
Not a seat shall be left in a House that ice hiow. 
But for Earl Buonaparte and Baron Moreau. 
But the rights of the Commons shall still be respected, 
Buonaparte himself shall approve the elected ; 
And the Speaker shall march with majestical mien. 
And make his three bows to the grave Guillotine. 

IV. 

Two heads, says the proverb, are better than one. 
But the Jacobin choice is for Five Heads or none. 
By Directories only can Liberty thrive ; 
Then down with the One, Boys ! and up with the Five ! 
How our bishops and judges will stare with amazement. 
When their heads are thrust out at the National Casement !-)r 
When the National Razor t has shaved them quite clean, 
What a handsome oblation to Saint Gaillotine ! 

* See Weekly Examiner, No. 11. Extract from the Courier. 

f La petite Fenetre, and la Razoire Nationale, fondling expres- 
sions applied to the Guillotine by the Jacobins in France, and 
their pupils here. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 31 



[The followino; Lines were written by an ardent reformer, \V. Roscok, the 
accomplished author of the "Life of Leo X.," and other works, to commemorate 
the taking of the Bastille (14th July, 17S9), and the publication by the National 
Assembly (on 20th August following) of the famous " Declai-ation of Rights " — 
a manifesto which became the creed of the Revolution, and which promulgated, 
as the basis of social government, the specious but impracticable doctrines of 
liUrtii, equality, and tlie snnreignt// of tlie ynoiilc exercised by universal suffrage. 
How the hopes and anticipations of moderate reformers, as embodied in these 
lines, were falsified by the spoliations and massacres which rapidly followed 
are but too well known. 

When, therefore, the Jnti-Jacobin was established to combat the principles 
of the Revolution, these Lines were, for party pm-poses, maliciously referred to, 
and significantly recommended to be "recited on the anniversary of the 14th 
August ". To make this allusion more clear, it must be remembered that on the 
10th August, 1702, after frightful massacres, the Hotel de Ville was seized and 
the Tuileries stormed. On the 13th the king and family were imprisoned in the 
Temple. His deposition, the dismissal of the Ministers, and the formation of a 
National Convention, on more popular principles than the Legislative A.ssembly, 
were decreed by the victors. On the 14th Le Brun became Minister for Foreign 
Affairs, Danton for Justice, and Monge for Marine ; while the Girondist Minis- 
ters, Roland, Servan, and Ciaviere, resumed their former functions as Ministers 
of the Interior, War, and Finance respectively 

The Song, La Sainte Guillotine, was evidently written as a Contreist, and 
not as a Peirody — a few lines at the beginning only excepted, which serve as an 
incroduction to verses on another promised phase of the Revolution, the in- 
vasion of England. — Ed.] 



LINES. 

Written for the pm'pose of being reciced on the Anniversary of 
the 14th of August. By William Koscoe, Esq. 

O'er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France, 

See the day-star of liberty rise ; 
Through the clouds of detraction luisullied advance, 

And hold its new course through the skies ! 
An ef!\ilgence so mild, with a lustre so bright. 

All Europe with wonder surveys ; 
x\nd, from deserts of darkness and dungeons of night, 

Contends for a share of the blaze. 

Ah ! who 'midst the horrors of night would abide, 

That can breathe the pure breezes of morn ? 
Or who, that has drmik the pure ciystalline tide, 

To the feculent flood would return ? 
When the bosom of Beauty the throbbmg heart meets, 

Ah, who can the transport decline '? 
Or who, that has tasted of Liberty's sweets. 

The prize but with life would resign ? 



32 POETRY OF 

Let Biu'ke like a bat from its splendour retire, 

A splendoiir too strong for his eyes ; 
Let pedants and fools his effusions admire, 

Entrapt in his cobwebs like flies. 
Shall insolent Sophistry hope to prevail 

Where Reason opposes her weight, 
When the welfare of millions is hung in the scale, 

And the balance yet trembles with fate ? 

But 'tis over — high Heaven the decision approves, 

Oppression has struggled in vain, 
To the hell she has form'd Siiperstition removes, 

And Tyranny bites his own chain. 
In the records of Time a new era vuifolds, 

All nature exults in its birth ; 
His creation benign the Creator beholds, 

And gives a new charter to earth. 

Oh ! catch the high import, ye winds, as ye blow ; 

Oh ! hear it, ye waves, as ye roll, 
From regions that feel the siui's vertical glow, 

To the farthest exti'emes of the Pole. 
Equal rights, equal laws, to the nations around, 

Peace and friendship its precepts impart, 
And wherever the footsteps of man shall be found, 

He shall bind the decree on his heart. 



[The Account of what was "anticipated to take place at the Meeting of the 
Friends of Freedom — alhided to on page 29 — duly appeared in TJic Anti-Jacobin, 
but has never hitherto formed a part of the collection of its Poctrii. As 
it is marked by much ability, and has been often quoted, it appears to the 
editor desirable to introduce some portion of it into the present edition of the 
Poctrt/. 

MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM. 

The House of KitsseU being given, Loiti) John and Lord William both rose 
at once. 

Lord .John made a very neat, and Loud Wlliiam a very appropriate speech. 

Alderman Coombe made a very impressive speech. 

Mr. Tierney made a very pointed speech. 

Mr. Grey made a very fine speech. He described the ministers as "bold 
bad men" — their measures he repeatedly declared to be not only "weak, but 
wicked ", 

Mr. Byng said a few words. 

General Tarleton and the Electors of Liverpool being given, the General, 
after an eulogiiun on Mr. Fox, begged to anticipate their favourite concluding 
toast, and to give "Tlie Cause of Freedom all over the M'orhl". This toast un- 
fortunately gave rise to an altercation which threatened to disturb the harmony 
of the evening. Olaudah Equiano, the .African, and Henry Yorke, the mulatto, 
insisted upon being heard; but as itappeai-ed that they were entering upon a 
subject which would have entirely altered the complexion of the Meeting, they 
were, though not without some difficulty, withheld from proceeding further. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 33 



Mr. Euskine rose, in consequence of some allusions which had been made 
to Trial by Jury. He professed himself to be highly flattered by the encomiums 
which had been lavished upon him ; at the same time he was conscious that he 
could not, without some degree of reserve, consent to arrogate to himself those 
qualities which the partiality of his friends had attributed to him. He had, on 
former occasions, declared himself to be clothed with the infirmities of man's 
nature ; and he now begged leave in all humility to reiterate that confession ; 
he should never cease to consider himself as a feeble, and with respect to the 
extent of his faculties in many respects, a finite being— he had ever borne in 
mind, and he hoped he should ever continue to bear in mind, those words of the 
inspired Penman, "Thou hast made him less than the angels, to crown him 
with glory and honour". These lines were indeed applicable to the state of man 
in general, but of no man more than himself; they appeared to him pointed and 
personal, and little less than prophetic ; they were always present to his mind ; 
he could wish to wear them in his breast as a sort of amulet against the en- 
chantment of public applause, and the witcheries of vanity and self-delusion ; 
yet if he were indeed possessed of those super-human powers— all pretensions 
to wliich he again begged leave most earnestly to disclaim — if he were endowed 
with the eloquence of an angel, and with all those other faculties which we 
attribute to angelic natures, it would be impossible for him to do justice to the 
eloquence with which the Honourable Gentleman who opened the meeting had 
defended the Cause of Freedom, identified as he conceived it to be with the 
persons and government of the Directory. In his present terrestrial state he 
could only address it as a prayer to God and as counsel to Man that the words 
which they had heard from that Honourable Gentleman might work inwardly 
in their hearts, and in due time, produce the fruit of Liberty and Revolution. 

He had not the advantage of being personally acquainted with any of the 
Gentlemen of the Directory ; he understood, however, that one of them (Mr. 
^Merlin) previous to the last change, had stood in a situation similar to his own 
— he was, in fact, nothing less than a leading Advocate and Barrister in the 
midst of a free, powerful and enlightened people. 

The conduct of the Directory with regard to the exiled Deputies had been 
objected to by some persons on the score of a pretended rigour. For his part he 
should only say that having been, as he had been, both a Soldier and a 
Sailor, if it had been his fortune to have stood in either of those two relations 
to the Directory — as a Man and as a Major-General he should not have scrupled 
to direct his artillery against the National Representation : — as a Naval Officer 
he would undoubtedly have undertaken for the removal of the Exiled Deputies ; 
admitting the exigency, under all its relations, as it appeared to him to exist, 
and the then circumstances of the times, with all their bearings and de- 
pendencies, branching out into an infinity of collateral considerations, and in- 
volving in each a variety of objects political, physical, and moral ; and these 
again under tlieir distinct and separate heatls, ramifying into endless sub- 
divisions which it was foreign to his purpose to consider. 

Having thus disposed of this part of his subject, Mr. Erskin'e passed in a 
strain of rapid and brilliant allusions over a variety of points characteristic of 
the conduct and disposition of the present Ministry; Mr. Burke's metaphor of 
"the Swinish Multitude," Mr. Reeves' metaphor of the "Tree of Monarchy," 
"the Battle of Tranent," "the March to Paris," the phrase of "Acquitted 
Felons," and the exclamation of " Perish Commerce " — which last expression 
he declared he should never cease to attribute to Mr. Windham ; so long, at 
least, as it should please the Sovereign Dispenser to continue to him the power 
of utterance and the enjoyment of his present faculties. He condemned the ex- 
pedition to Quiberon, he regretted the " Fate of Messrs. Muir and Palmer," he 
exulted in the "Acquittal of Citizens Tooke, Hardy, Thelwall, Holcroft and 
others," and he blessed that Providence to which (as it had been originally 
allotted to him (Mr. Erskine) the talents which had been exerted in their de- 
fence) the preservation of those Citizens might perhaps be indirectly attributed. 
He then descanted on the captivity of La Fayette, and the Dividend on the 
Imperial Loan. . 

After fully exhausting these subjects, Mr. Erskine resumed a topic on which 
he had only slightly glancetl before. In a most delicate and sportive vein of 



34 POETRY OF 

humour he contended, that if the people were a Swinish Multitude, those who 
represented them must necessarily be a Swinish Representation. It would be 
in vain to attempt to do justice to the polite and easy pleasantry which per- 
vaded this part of Mr. Erskine's speech. Suffice it to say that the taste of the 
Audience showed itself in complete unison with the genius of the Orator, and 
the whole of this passage was crowned with loud and reiterated plaudits. After 
a speech of unexampled exertion, Mr. Erskine now began to enter much at 
length into a recital of select passages from our most approved English authors, 
concluding with a feopious extract from the several Publications of the late Mr. 
Burke ; but such were the variety and richness of his quotations which he con- 
tinued to an extent far exceeding the limits of this paper, that we found our- 
selves under the necessity, either of considerably abridging our original matter, 
or omitting them altogether, which latter alternative we adopted the more 
readily as the greater part of these brilliant citations have already past 
through the ordeal of a public and patriotic auditory ; and as there is every 
probability that tlie circumstances of the times will again call them forth on 
some future emergency. 

Mr. Erskine concluded by recapitulating, in a strain of agonizing and im- 
pressive'eloquence, the several more prominent heads of his speech : — He had 
been a Soldier and a Sailor, and had a son at Winchester school — he had been 
called by Special Retainers, during the summer, into many different and distant 
parts of the country— travelling chiefly in Post-chaises — He felt himself called 
upon to declare that his poor faculties were at the service of his Country— of the 
free and enlightened part of it at least — He stood here as a Man — He stood in 
the Eye, indeed in the Hand of GOD — to whom (in the presence of the Company 
and Waiters) he solemnly appealed — He was of Noble, perhaps. Royal Blood 
— He had a liouse at Hampstead — was convinced of the necessity of a thorough 
and radical Reform — His Pamphlet had gone through Thirty Editions — skip- 
ping alternately the odd and even numbers — He loved the Constitution, to which 
he would cling and grapple— And he was clothed with the infirmities of man's 
nature— He would apply to the present French Rulers (particularly Barras and 
Beubel) the words of the poet :— 

" Be to their Faults a little blind ; 

"Be to their Virtues very kind, 

" Let all their ways be uncontin'd, 

" And clap the Padlock on their mind ! " 

And for these reasons, thanking the Gentlemen who had done him the honour 
to drink his Health, he should propose " Merlin, the late Minister of Justice, and 
Trial by Jury !" Mr. Erskine here concluded a speech which had occupied 
the attention and excited the applause of his Audience during a space of little 
less than three hours, allowing for about three quarters of an hour, which were 
occupied by successive fits of fainting, between the principal subdivisions of 
his discourse. — Mr. Erskine descended from the Table, and was conveyed down 
stairs by the assistance of his friends. On arriving at the corner of the Piazzas, 
they were surprized by a very unexpected embarrassment. Mr. Erskine's 
horses had been taken from the carriage, and a number of able Chairmen en- 
gaged to supply their place ; but these fellows having contrived to intoxicate 
themselves with the money which the Coachman had advanced to them on 
account, were become so restive and unruly, so exorbitant in their demands 
(positively refusing to abide by their former engagement) that Mr. Erskine 
deemed it unsafe to trust himself in their hands, and determined to wait the 
return of his own more tractaljle and less chargeable animals. This unpleasant 
scene continued for above an hour. 

Mr. Siierid;.n's health was now drunk in his absence and received with an 
appearance of general approbation ; —when in the midst of the applause Mr. 
Fox arose, in apparent agitation, and directed the attention of the Company 
to the rising, manly virtues of Mr. Macfungus. 

Mr. Macfungus declared that to pretend he was not elated by tlie en- 
comiums with which Mr. Fox had honoured him was an affectation which he 
disdained ; — such encomiums would ever form the proudest recompense of his 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 35 

patriotic labours— he confessed they were cheering to him— he felt them warm at 
his heart— anil while a single fibre of his frame preserved its vibration, it would 
throb in unison to the approbation of that Honourable Gentleman. The applause 
of the Company was no less flattering to him — he felt his faculties invigorated 
by it, and stimulated to the exertion of new energies in the race of mind. Every 
other sensation was obliterated and absorbed by it ; for the present, however, 
he would endeavour to suppress his feelings, and concentre his energies for the 
purpose of explaining to the Company why he assisted now for the first time at 
the celebration of the Fifth Revolution which had been effected in regenerate(l 
France. The various and extraordinary talents of the Right Hon. Gentleman 
— his vehement and overpowering perception, his vigorous and splendid intuition 
would for ever attract the admiration of all those who were in any degree en- 
dowed with those faculties themselves or capable of estimating them in others ; 
as such, he had ever been among the most ardent admirers, and on many occa- 
sions, among the most ardent supporters of the Right Hon. Gentleman— he 
agreed with him in many points— in his general love of Liberty and Revolution ; 
in his execration of the War ; in his detestation of Ministers ; but he entertained 
his doubts, and till those doubts were cleared up, he could not, consistently with 
his principles, attend at the celebration of any Revolution whatever. 

These doubts, however, were now satisfactorily done away. A pledge had 
been entered into for accomplishing an effectual radical Revolution ; not for the 
niere overthrow of the present System, nor for the establishment of any other 
in its place ; but for the effecting such a series of Revolutions as might be 
sufficient for the establishment of a Free System. 

Mr. MacfUxNGUS continued he was incapable of compromising with first 
principles, of acquiescing in short-sighted temporary palliative expedients : if 
such had been his temper he should assuredly have rested satislied with the 
pledge which that Right Hon. Gentleman had entered into about six months 
ago on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, in which pledge he considered the 
promise of that previous and preliminary Revolution, to which he had before 
alluded, as essentially implicated. 

"Whenever this Reform takes place," exclaimed Mr. Macfungus, "the 
present degraded and degrading system must fall into dissolution ; it must sink 
and perish with the corruptions which have supported it. The national 
energies will awake, and shaking off their lethargy as their fetters drop from 
them, they will follow the Angel of their Revolution, while the Genius of Free- 
dom soaring aloft beneath the orb of Gallic Illumination will brush away as 
with the wing of an Eagle all the cobwebs of Aristocracy. But before the 
Temple of Freedom can be erected in their place, the surface which they have 
occupied must be smoothed and levelled— it must be cleared by repeated Re- 
volutionary Explosions from all the lumber and rubbish with which Aristocracy 
and Fanaticism will endeavour to encumber it, and to impede the progress 
of the holy work.— The sacred level, the symbol of Fraternal Equality, must be 
passed over the whole.— The completion of the Edifice will indeed be the more 
tardy, but it will not be the less durable for having been longer delayed — Ce- 
mented with the blood of tyrants, and the tears of the Aristocracy, it will 
rise a monument for the astonishment and veneration of future ages. The 
remotest posterity, with our children yet unborn, and the most distant portions 
of the Globe, will crowd around its Gates and demand admission into its 
Sanctuary. — The Tree of Liberty will be planted in the midst of it, and its 
branches will extend to the ends of the Earth, while the Friends of Freedom 
meet and fraternize and amalgamate under its consolatory shade. There our 
Infants shall be taught to lisp in tender accents the Revolutionary Hymn — 
there with wreaths of myrtle, and oak, and poplar, and vine and olive and 
cypress and ivy ; with violets and roses and daffodils and dandelions in our 
hands we will swear respect to childhood and manhood and old age, and 
virginity and womanhood and widowhood ; but above all to the Supreme Being. 
— There we will decree and sanction the Immortality of the Soul.— There pillars 
and obelisks, and arches and pyramids, will awaken the love of Glory and of 
our Country. — There Painters and Statuaries, with their chisels and colours, 
and Engravers with their engraving tools will perpetuate the interesting 
features of our Revolutionary Heroes ; while our Poets and Musicians, with an 



36 POETKY OF 



honourable emulation, strive to immortalize their memory. Their bones will 
be entombed in the Vault Ijelow, while their sacred Shades continue hovering 
over our Heads— those venerated Manes which from time to time will require 
to be appeased by the blood of the remaining Aristocrats. — Then Peace and 
Freedom, and Fraternity and Equality will pervade the whole Earth — while the 
Vows of Republicanism, the Altar of Patriotism, and the Revolutionary Pontiff, 
with the thrilling volcanic Sympathies, whether of Holy Fury or of ardent Fra- 
ternal Civism, uniting and identifying, produce as it were an electric Energy." 

Mr. Macfungus' here paused for a few moments, seemingly overpowered by 
the excess of Sensibility, and the force of the ideas which he was labouring to 
co7ivey. — The whole Company appeared to sympathize with his unaffiicted emo- 
tions. After a short interval, he recovered himself from a very impressive 
silence, and continued as follows : 

"These prospects, Fellow-Citizens, may possibly be deferred. The Machi- 
avelism of Governments may for the time prevail, and this iinnatural and 
execrable contest may yet be prolonged ; but the hour is not far distant ; 
Persecution will only serve to accelerate it, and the ))lood of Patriotism stream- 
ing from the severing axe Avill call down vengeance on our oppressors in a voice 
of Thunder. I expect the contest, aiiil I am prepared for it. — I hope I shall 
never shrink nor swerve nor start aside wherever duty and inclination may 
place me. My services, my life itself, are at your disposal — Whether to act or to 
suffer, I am yours— With HAMPDEN in the field, or with SIDNEY on the scaffold. 
My example may be more useful to you than my talents : and this head may 
perhaps serve your cause more effectually, if placed on a pole on Temple Bar, 
than if it was occupied in organizing your Committees, in preparing your Re- 
volutionary Explosions, and conducting your Correspondence." 

Mr. Macfungus said he should give, as an unequivocal test of his senti- 
ments, " Buonaparte and a Radical Reform ". 

The conclusion of Mr. Macfungus's speech was followed by a simultaneous 
burst of rapturous approbation from every part of the room. The applause con- 
tinued for several minutes, during which Mr. Macfungus repeatedly rose to 
express his feelings. 

The conversatit)n now became more mixed and animated ; several excellent 
Songs were sung, and Toasts drank, while the progressive and patriotic festivity 
of the evening was heightened by the vocal powers of several of the most 
popular Singers. A new Song written by Captain Morris received its 
sanction in the warmest expression of applause. The whole company joined 
with enthusiasm in their old favourite Chorus of Bow ! Wow !! Wow !!! 

[Macfungus stands for Sir James Mackintosh, who, after studying 
medicine in Edinburgh, settled in London, and wrote for the opposition news- 
papers, particularly the Morning Post, Daniel Stuart, the proprietor, being his 
father-in-law. The first work that brought him into notice was his Findiciw 
Galliccii (1791), in reply to Burke's Reflectioiu on the French Revolution, which 
splendid philippic it greatly surpassed in philosophic thought, sound feeling, 
and connnon sense. It was enthusiastically received by the Liberal party, 
whose leaders eagerly sought his acquaintance and co-operation ; and when the 
Association of the Friends of the People was formed, he was appointed Secretary. 
His subsequent successful career as an Advocate. Indian Judge, Member of 
Parliament, Minister under Lord Grey, and as an English historian, bore out 
the promise of his youth. He was born in 1765 and died in 1S3'2. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 37 



No. V. 

Dec. 11, 1797. 
"We have already hinted at the principle by which the 
followers of the Jacobinical sect are restrained from the 
exercise of their own favourite virtue of charity. The 
force of this prohibition, and the strictness with which it 
is observed, are strongly exemplified in the following 
poem. It is the production of the same author [Southey] 
whose happy effort in English Sapphics we presumed to 
imitate ; the pi-esent effusion is in Dactylics, and equally 
subject to the laws of Latin Prosody. 

THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. 

Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, 

Travelling painfully over the rugged road ; 

Wild visag'd wanderer — ah for thy heavy chance. 

We think that we see him fumbling in the pocket of 
his blue pantaloons ; that the splendid shilling is about 
to make its appearance, and to glitter in the eyes, and 
glad the heart of the poor sufferer. But no such thing 
— the bard very calmly contemplates her situation, which 
he describes in a pair of very pathetical stanzas ; and 
after the following well-imagined topic of consolation, 
concludes by leaving her to Providence. 

Thy husband will never return from the war again ; 
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity ; 
Cold are thy famished babes — God help thee, widow'd 
one ! 



38 POETRY OF 

We conceived that it would be necessary to follow up 
this general rule with the particular exception, and to 
point out one of those cases in which the embargo upon 
Jacobin bounty is sometimes suspended ; * with this view 
we have subjoined the poem of 

THE SOLDIEE'S FEIEND. 

DACTYLICS. 

Come, little Drummer Boy, lay down your knapsack here: 
I am the soldier's friend— here are some books for you ; 
Nice clever books by Tom Paine, the philanthropist. t 
* [The original poem is here subj^aited : — 
THE ^LDIEE-"S'*\VIFE. 

DACTYLICS. 

Weai-y way-wandex'er, languid and sick at heart, 
Travelling painfull^' over the ragged road ; 
Wild-visaged wanderer ! Ah ! for thy heavy chance. 

Sorely thy little ones drag by thee barefooted, 
Cold is the baby that hangs at thy bending back — 
Meagre and livid, and screaming its wretchednese. 

Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, 

As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe, 

Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy haggard face. 

Thy husband will never return from the war again ; 

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity — 

Cold are thy famished babes — God help thee, widowed one !] 
1795. 

t [" Walked to the Old Bailej^ to see David Isaac Eaton in 
the piUory. The mob was decidedly friendly to him. His 
havmg published Paine's Age of Eeason was not an intelligible 
offence to them." — Crahb Robinson's Diaiy, i. 386. 

The Proclamation against Seditious Writings, however, was 
supported by some influential Whigs. " Pitt had previously 
sent copies of it to several members of the Opposition in both 
Houses, requesting their advice," says Lord Malmesbmy. 
Whether Pitt desired it or not, no measure could have been 
more effectual for dividing the Whig party. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 39 

Here's lialf-a-crown for you — here are some handbills 
too — V 

Go to the barracks, and give all the soldiers some. ^ 
Tell them the sailors are all in a mutiny. 

Exit Drummer Boy, with handbills and halj-a- 
crown. — Manet Soldier's Friend. 

Liberty's friends thus all learn to amalgamate, 
Freedom's volcanic explosion prepares itself, 
Despots shall bow to the fasces of liberty. 
Reason, philosophy, " fiddledum diddledum," 
Peace and fraternity, higgledy, piggledy, 
Higgledy, piggledy, "fiddledum diddledum ". 

Ut cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 



SONNET.— TO LIBERTY. 

Just Guardian of man's social bliss ! for thee 
The paths of danger gladly would I tread : 
For thee ! contented, join the glorious dead, 

Who nobly scorn'd a life that was not free ! 

But worse than death it pains my soul to see 
The Lord of Ruin, by wild Uproar led, 
Hell's first-born, Anarchy, exalt his head. 

And seize thy throne, and bid us bow the knee ! 

"What though his iron sceptre, blood-imbrued, 
Crush half the nations with resistless might ; 

Never shall this firm spirit be subdued : 
In chains, in exile, still the chanted rite, 

Liberty ! to thee shall be renew'd : 

still be sea-girt Albion thy delight ! D. 



40 POETRY OF 



No. VL 

Dec. 18, 1797. 
We cannot enough congratulate ourselves on having 
been so fortunate as to fall upon the cui'ious specimens of 
classical metre and correct sentiment which we have 
made the subject of our late Jacobinical imitations. 

The fashion of admiring and imitating these produc- 
tions has spread in a surprising degree. Even those who 
sympathise with the principles of the writer selected as 
our model, seem to have been struck with the ridicule of 
his poetry. 

There appeared in the Morning Chronicle of Monday a 
Sapphic Ode, apparently written by a friend and associate 
of our author, in which he is however travestied most 
unmercifully. And to make the joke the more pointed, 
the learned and judicious editor contrived to print the 
ode en masse, without any order of lines, or division of 
stanza ; so that it was not discovered to be verse till the 
next day, when it was explained in a hobbling erratum. 

We hardly know which to consider as the greater 
object of compassion in this case— the original Odist, 
thus parodied by his friend, or the mortified Parodist 
thus mutilated by his printer. " Et tn. Brute!" has 
probably been echoed from each of these worthies to his 
murderer, in a tone that might melt the hardest heart to 
pity. 

We cordially wish them joy of each other, and we 
resign the modern Lesbian l)jre into their hands without 
envy or repining. 

Our author's Dactylics have produced a second 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 41 

imitation (conveyed to us from an unknown hand), with 
which we take our leave of this species of poetry also. 

THE SOLDIEE'S WIFE.* 

DACTYLICS. 

" Weary way- wanderer," &c. &c. 

IMITATION. 
DACTYLICS. 

Being the quintessence of all the TJactijlics that ever were, or ever will 
he written. 

HUMBLY ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ABOVE. 

Wearisome Sonnetteer, feeble and querulous, 
Painiully dragging out thy demo-cratic lays — 
Moon-stricken Sonnetteer, "ah ! for thy heavy chance!" 

Sorely thy Dactylics lag on uneven feet : 
Slow is the syllable which thou wouldst urge to speed, 
Lame and o'erburthen'd, and " screaming its wretched- 
ness ! " 

t 

Ne'er talk of ears again ! look at thy spelling-book ; 
Dilworth and Dyche % are both mad at thy quantities — 
Dactylics, call'st thou 'em — God help thee, silly one ! " 



[• See p. 38.— Ed.] 

t My worthy friend the beUman had promised to supply an 
additional stanza ; but the business of assisting the lamp- 
lighter, chimney-sweeper, &c., with complimentary verses for 
their worthy masters and mistresses, pressing on him at this 
season, he was obliged to decline it. [A quiz at the third 
stanza, which was contributed by Coleridge. — Ed.] 

[J Thomas Dyche was a clergyman, and kept a school at 
Stratford-le-Bow. He was the author of an English dictionary, 
a spelling-book, a Latin vocabularj^, &c. He died about 1750. 
Thomas Dilworth, whose educational works were long popular, 
was for some time his assistant, and then set up a school for 
himself at Wapping. He died in 1781. — Ed.] 



42 



POETRY OF 



[The following is the Sapphic Ode alluded to above, which 
was intended by the poet of the Morning Chronicle as a " retort 
courteous " to the Friend of Humanity. The printer of that 
paper, unfoi'tiuiately, being new to " such branches of learning," 
and not dreaming it could be intended for ptoctry, printed it as 
below. The mistake seems to have been inmiediately discovered, 
for it re-appeared next day (Dec. 12) in the guise of verse. — Ed.] 



THE COLLECTOE AND THE HOUSEHOLDER. 
The Hint taken from the Anti-Jacobin, "Needy Knife-Grinders' 



H. Greedy Collector, whither 
are you going, thus with 
your inkhorn in your button- 
hole, and ledger so snugly 
underneath your coat ? Say, 
greedy Collector. 

G. Much I rejoice that I have 
met you here, friend : turn 
back, I pri'thee, 'tis with you 
I want to speak ; I am come 
on business of importance — 
gentle Householder. 

H. Greedy Collector, well I 
know your biisiness, 'tis for 
my taxes you are come to 
dun me ; well I 'tis the last 
time you will have a right to 
ask me for money. Buggy, 
no longer do I drive a smart 
one ; smash went my gig, as 
long [ago] as Easter ; down 
Highgate hill we tumbled al- 
together, horse, wife, and I, 
Sir. One broke his knees, 
and* another broke his 
collar-bone ; there's an end 
of pleasuring on Smidays. 
Take my last payment ; 
there is your two pounds 
twelve shillings and nine- 
pence. 



C. Gentle householder, much 
are you mistaken ; Order, 
Religion, Constitution, 

Laws, and rational freedom, 
all demand from you a — 
triple assessment. 

H. Triple Assessment ! What 
beside the old tax ? 

C. Certainly : come, deposit, 
I'm a waiting. 

H. Wait and be damned. 
What is it you are after ? 

C. Ten poimds eleven. 

H. Ten pounds eleven ! ha'^e I 
not informed thee gig I have 
none ? I've sent it to the 
hammer ; Pay for a gig and 
not [to] have it ! 

C. But you had one at Easter ! 

H. Easter is past and gone. 
I'll never pay thee. 

C. Gentle Householder, then I 
must proceed to shew thee 
a little bit of parchment, 
called a writ of distringer 
[for distringas]. 

[Exit Collector to take posses- 
sion of the Householder's 
bed and fui-niture. 



[* and should have been omitted.— ED.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 43 

The verses which we here present to the public were 
written immediately after the Eevolution of the 4th of 
September. We should be much obliged to any of our 
classical and loyal correspondents for an English trans- 
lation of them. 

LATIN VEESES 

Written immediately after the Revolution of the Ath of September. 

Ipsa mali Hortatrix scelerumque uberrima Mater 
In se prima suos vertit lymphata furores, 
Luctaturque diu secum, et conatibus segris 
Fessa cadit, proprioque jacet labefacta veneno. 

Mox tamen ipsius rursum violentia morbi 
Erigit ardentem furiis, ultroque minantem 
Spargere bella procul, vastseque incendia cladis, 
Civilesque agitare faces, totumque per orbem 
Sceptra super Eegum et Populorum subdita colla 
Ferre pedem, et sanctas Eegnorum evertere sedes. 

Aspicis ! Ipsa sui bacchatur sanguine Eegis, 
Barbaraque ostentans f oralis signa triumphi, 
Mole gigantea campis prorumpit apertis, 
Successu scelerum, atque insanis viribus audax. 

At qua Pestis atrox i-apido se turbine vertit, 
Cernis ibi, prisca morum compage soluta, 
Procubuisse solo civilis foedera vitae, 
Et quodcunque Fides, quodcunque habet alma verendi 
Eeligio, Pietasque et Legum frasna sacrarum. 

Nee spes Pacis adhuc — necdum exsaturata rapinis 
Effera Bellatrix, fusove expleta cruore. 
Crescit inextinctus Furor, atque exsestuat ingens 



44 POETRY OF 

Ambitio, immauisque ira Vindicta reuata 
Eeliquias Soliorum et adhuc restantia Regna 
Flagitat excidio, praedaeque incumbit opimae. 

Una etenim in mediis Gens intemerata ruinis 
Libertate proba, et justo libramine rerum, 
Securum faustis degit sub legibus aevum; 
Antiquosque edit mores, et jura Parentum 
Ordine firma suo, sanoque intacta vigore, 
Servat adhuc, hominumque fidem, curamque Deorum. 
Eheu ! quanta odiis avidoque alimenta furori ! 
Quanta profanatas inter spoliabitur aras 
Vietima ! si quando versis Victoria fatis 
Annuerit scelus extremum, terraque subacta 
Impius Oceani sceptrum faedaverit Hostis ! 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 45 



No. YIL 

Dec. 25, 1797. 
We have been favoured with a translation of the Latin 
verses inserted in our last Number. We have little doubt 
that our readers will agree with us, in hoping that this 
may not be the last contribution which we shall receive 
from the same hand.''' 

Parent of countless crimes, in headlong rage, 

War with herself see frantic Gallia wage, 

Till worn and wasted by intestine strife. 

She falls — her languid pulse scarce quick with life. 

But soon she feels through every trembling vein, 

New strength collected from convulsive pain : 

Onwai"d she moves, and sounds the dire alarm, 

And bids insulted nations haste to arm ; 

Spreads wide the waste of war, and hurls the brand 

Of civil discord o'er each troubled land, 

While desolation marks her furious course. 

And thrones subverted bow beneath her force. 

Behold ! she pours her Monarch's guiltless blood. 
And quaffs with savage joy the crimson flood ; 
Then, proud the deadly trophies to display 

[* The Latin Verses, much admired at the time, were written 
by the Marquis Wellesley at Walmer Castle, in 1797, at the 
desire of Pitt, and were published after the author's departure 
for India, in the Anti-Jacobin. The beautiful translation of 
them was by Lord Morpeth, afterwards sixth Earl of Carlisle, 
whose mother was the daughter of Granville Leveson Gowee, 
first Marquis of Stafford. He died in 1848.] 



46 POETEY OF 

Of her foul crimes, resistless bursts away, 

Unaw'd by justice, unappall'd by fear, 

And runs with giant strength her mad career. 

Where'er her-. banners float in barbarous pride, 
Where'er her conquest rolls its sanguine tide, 
There, the fair fabric of establish'd law. 
There social order, and religious awe. 
Sink in the general wreck ; indignant there 
Honour and Virtue fly the tainted air ; 
Fly the mild duties of domestic life 
That cheer the parent, that endear the wife, 
The lingering pangs of kindred grief assuage, 
Or soothe the sorrows of declining age. 

Nor yet can Hope presage th' auspicious hour. 
When Peace shall check the rage of lawless Power; 
Nor yet th' insatiate thirst of blood is o'er, 
Nor yet has Eapine ravaged every shore. 
Exhaustless Passion feeds th' augmented flame, 
x\nd wild Ambition mocks the voice of Shame ; 
Eevenge, with haggard look and scowling eyes. 
Surveys with horrid joy th' expected prize ; 
Broods o'er each remnant of monarchic sway, 
And dooms to certain death his fancied prey. 

For midst the ruins of each falling state. 
One favour'd nation braves the general fate — 
One favour'd nation, whose impartial laws 
Of sober Freedom vindicate the cause ; 
Her simple manners, midst surrounding crimes, 
Proclaim the genuine worth of ancient times ; 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 47 

True to herself, unconquerably bold, 
The rights her valour gain'd she dares uphold ; 
Still with pure faith her promise dares fulfil, 
Still bows submission to th' Almighty will. 

Just Heav'n ! how Envy kindles at the sight ! 
How mad Ambition plans the desperate fight ! 
"With what new fury Vengeance hastes to pour 
Her tribes of rapine from yon crowded shore ! 
Just Heav'n ! how fair a victim at the shrine 
Of injured Freedom shall her life resign, 
If e'er, propitious to the vows of hate, 
Unsteady Conquest stamp our mournful fate, 
If e'er proud France usurp our ancient reign, 
And ride triumphant o'er th' insulted main ! 

Far hence th' unmanly thought — the voice of Fame 
Wafts o'er th' applauding deep her Duncan's name. 
What though the Conqueror of th' Italian plains 
Deem nothing gain'd, while this fair isle remains ; 
Though his young breast with rash presumption glow, 
He braves the vengeance of no vulgar foe : 
Conqueror no more, full soon his laurel 'd pride 
Shall perish — whelm'd in Ocean's angry tide ; 
His broken bands shall rue the fatal day. 
And scatter'd fleets proclaim Britannia's sway. 




48 POETKY OF 



No. VIII. 

Jan. 1, 1798. 
A COBKESPONDENT has adapted the beautiful poem of the 
Battle of Sabla, in "Carlyle's Specimens of Arabiaii 
Poetry," to the circumstances of the present moment. 
We shall always be happy to see the poetry of other 
times and nations so successfully engaged in the service 
of our country, and of the present order of society. 

THE CHOICE. 
(feom the battle of sabla, by jaafer ben alba.) 

I. 
Hast thou not seen th' insulting foe 

In fancied triumphs crown'd ? 
And heard their frantic rulers throw 

These empty threats around ? 
" Make now your choice ! The terms we give, 

Desponding Britons, hear ! 
These fetters on your hands receive, 

Or in your hearts the spear." 

Can we forget our old renown ; 

Eesign the empire of the sea ; 
And yield at once our sovereign's crown, 

Our ancient laws and liberty ? 

Shall thus the fierce destroyer's hand 
Pass unresisted o'er our native land ? 
Our country sink, to barb'rous force a prey. 
And ransuin'd England bow to Gallic sway ? 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 49 

II. 

''Is then the contest o'er?" we cried, 

" And lie we at your feet ? 
And dare you vauntingly decide 

The fortune we shall meet ? 
A brighter day we soon shall see ; 

No more the prospect lours ; 
And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty 

Shall gild our future hours." 

Yes ! we will guard our old renown ; 

Assert our empire o'er the sea ; 
And keep untouch'd our sovereign's crown, 

Our ancient laws and liberty. 

Not thus the fierce destroyer's hand 
Shall scatter ruin o'er this smiling land ; 
No barb'rous force shall here divide its prey ; 
Nor ransom'd England bow to Gallic sway. 

III. 
The foe advance. In firm array 

We'll rush o'er Albion's sands — 
Till the red sabre marks our way 

Amid their yielding bands ! 
Then as they lie in death's cold grasp, 

We'll cry, " Our choice is made ! 
These hands the sabre's hilt shall clasp, 

Your hearts shall feel the blade ". 

Thus Britons guard their ancient fame, 

Assert their empire o'er the sea. 
And to the envying world proclaim, 

One nation still is brave and free — 
4 



50 POETRY OF 

Eesolv'd to conquer or to die, 
True to their King, their Laws, their Liberty : 
No barb'rous foe finds here an easy prey — 
Un-ransoirCd England spurns all foreign sway.* 



* The original poem as translated, or rather paraphrased, by 
Prof. J. D. Carlyle, is here subjoined : — 

THE CHOICE. 

Sabla ! thoii saw'st th' exulting foe 

In fancied triumphs crown'd : 
Thou heard'st their frantic females throw 

These gallmg taunts around : 

" Make now your choice — the terms we give, 

Desponding victims, hear ! 
These fetters on your hands receive, 

Or in your hearts the spear." 

"And is the conflict o'er," we cried, 

And lie we at your feet, 
*' And dare you vauntingly decide 

The fortmie we must meet ? 

"A brighter day we soon shall see, 

Tho' now the prospect lowers, 
And Conquest, Peace, and Liberty 

Shah gild our future hours." 

The foe advanc'd — in firm array 

We rush'd o'er Sabla's sands. 
And the red sabre mark'd our way 

Amidst their yielding bands. 

Then as they writh'd m death's cold grasp, 

We cried, " Our choice is made ! 
These hands the sabre's hilt shall clasp, 

Your hearts shall have the blade ! " 

As Carlyle's version is although a spirited not a faithful 
one, the Editor is induced to present a literal translation, 
from Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry, by G. J. Lyall, 1885, 
8vo., p. 10. The contest was not a battle but one of the fre- 
quent skirmishes between neighbouring clans. Sabla is Car- 
lyle's rendering of Sahbal a JVady, in Arabia, overlooked by 
twin peaks. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 51 

The following poem has been trausiiiitted to us, 
without preface or introduction, by a gentleman of the 
name of Ibeland.* We apprehend from the peculiarities 
of the style, that it must be the production of a remote 
period. We are likewise inclined to imagine, that it may 
contain allusions to some former event in English his- 
tory. What that event may have been, we must submit 
to the better judgment and superior information of our 
readers, from whom we impatiently expect a solution of 
this interesting question. The editor has been influenced 
solely by a sense of its poetical merit. 

Ja'fAR son of 'UlBAH, of the BANU-L-HiEITH. 

The Poet, with two companions, went forth to plunder the 
herds of 'Ukail, a neighbour-tribe, and was beset on his way 
back by detached parties of that tribe in the valley of Sahbal, 
whom he overcame and reached home safely. 

That even when under Sahbal's twin peaks upon us drave 
the horsemen troop after troop, and the foemen pressed 
us sore — 
They said to us — " Two things lie before you : now must ye 
choose — 
the points of the spears couched at you, or, if ye will not, 
chains". 
We answered them — "Yea, this thing may fall to you after 
fight, 
when men shall be left on ground, and none shall arise 
again ; 
But we know not, if we quail before the assault of Death, 

how much may be left of life : the goal is too dim to see ". 

We strode to the strait of battle : there cleared us a space 

around 

the white swords in our right hands which the smiths had 

fiu'bished fair. 

To them fell the edge of my blade on that day of Sahbal dale, 

and mine was the share thereof whereover my fingers closed. 

Ed. 

[* W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare forger. — Ed.] 



52 POETBY OF 

THE DUKE AND THE TAXING-MAN.- 
Whilome there liv'd in fair Englonde 

A Duke of peerless wealth, 
And mickle care he took of her 

Old Constitution's health. 
Full fifty thousand pounds and more 

To him his vassals paid, 
But ne to King, ne Countree, he 

Would yield th' assessment made. 
The taxing-man, with grim visage 

Came pricking on the way ; 
The taxing-man, with wrothful words, 

Thus to the Duke did say : 
" Lord Duke, Lord Duke, thou'st hid from me. 

As sure as I'm alive, 
Of goodly palfreys seventeen, 

Of varlets f/venfjj-Jive" . 
Then out he drew his gray goose quill, 

Ydipp'd in ink so black, 
And sorely to surcharge the Duke, 

I trowe, he was ne slack. 
Then 'gan the Duke to looken pale, 

x\nd stared as one astound, 
Twaie coney nge Clerks f eftsoons he spies 

Sitting their board around. 



[* The above ballad refers to an attempt by Francis, fifth 
Duke of Bedford, to escape the payment of the Assessed 
Taxes upon twentj^-five of his servants, on the plea that as 
the Helpers did not wear a Livery, and were engaged by the 
week, they were not liable to the duty. This defence was, 
however, unsnccessful. — Ed.] 

t Ttvaie coneynge Clerks. — Coneynge is the participle of the verb 
to hen or know. It by no means imports what we now denomi- 
nate a knoioing one : on the contrary, twaie coneynge clerks means 
two intelligent and disinterested clergymen. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 53 

" woe is me," then cried the Duke, 

" Ne mortal wight but errs ! 
I'll hie to yon twaie coneynge Clerks, 

Yclept Commissioners." 
The Duke he hied him to the board. 

And straight 'gan for to say, 
" A seely ■■'' wight I am, God wot, 

Ne ken I the right way. 
" These varlets twenty -five w^ere ne'er 

Liveried in white and red ; 
"Withouten this, what signifie 

"Wages, and board, and bed ? 
" And by St, George, that stout horseman, 

My palfreys seventeen, 
For tw^o years, or perchance for three, 

I had forgotten clean." 
" Naie," quoth the Clerk, "both horse and foot 

To hide was thine intent, 
Ne seely wight be ye, but didst 

With good advisament.f 
" Surcharge, surcharge, good Taxing-man, 

Anon our seals we fix, 
Of sterling pounds. Lord Duke, you pay 

Three hundred thirty-six.";}: 

* Beely is evidently the original of the modern word silly. A 
sedy wight, however, by no means imports what is now called a 
silly fellow, but means a man of simplicity of character, devoid 
of all vanity, and of any strange, ill-conducted ambition, which, 
if snccessful, wonld immediately be fatal to the man who in- 
dulged it. 

t Good advisamfnt means — cool consideration. 

[X Francis, fifth Duke of Bedford, died after a severe stir- 
gical operation, March 2, 1802, at the early age of thirty-six. 
" The I)nke of Bedford's energetic and capacious mind," says 



54 POETKY OF 

EPIGEAM ON THE PAEIS LOAN,* 

CALLED 

THE LOAN UPON ENGLAND. 

The Paris cits, a patriotic band, 

Advance their cash on British freehold land. 

But let the speculating rogues beware — 

They've bought the skin, but who's to kill the hear? 

Lord Ossory, "his enlarged way of thinking, and elevated senti- 
ments, together with the habits and pursuits of his hfe, peculiarly 
qualiHed him for his high station and princely fortune. He was 
superior to bad education and disadvantages for forming his 
character, and fciurned out certainly a first-ra-te man, though not 
free from imperfections. His uprightness and truth were un- 
equalled ; his magnanimity, fortitude and consideration, in his 
last moments, taken so unprepared as he was, were astonishing." 

On the 16th March, C. J. Fox, in moving for a new writ for 
the borough of Tavistock, vacated by Lord John Russell, who 
had succeeded to the titles and estates of his deceased brother, 
took occasion to pronounce a beautiful and glowing eulogium 
on his departed friend and firm supporter. — Ed.] 

[* The Anti-Jacohin (in No. 8) thus speaks of the threatened 
invasion of this comitry, for whicla " they have publicly formed, 
and (as they term it) organized their Army of England. Its 
Advanced Guard is to be formed from a chosen Corps of Ban- 
ditti, the most distinguished for Massacre and Plunder. It is 
to be preceded, as it naturally ought, by the Genius of French 
Revolutionary Liberty, and it will be vjclcomed, as they tell us, 
' on the ensanguined shores of Britain, by the generous friends 
of Parliamentary Reform '. In the interval, however, till these 
golden dreams are realized, it is necessary that this ' Army of 
England,^ while it yet remains in France, should be fed, paid, 
and clothed. For this purpose a new and separate fund is 
provided (in the same spirit with the rest of their measiu'es), 
and is to be termed ' The Loan or England,' to be raised by 
anticipation on the security and mortgage of all the Lands and 
Property of this Country. This gasconade, which sounds too 
extravagant for reality, is nevei'theless seriously annomiced by 
a message from the Executive Directory ; and we are told that 
the Merchants of Paris are eagerly offering to advance, on such 
a security, the money which is to defray the expenses of the 
Expedition against this country." — Ed.] 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 55 



No. IX. 

Jan. 8, 1798. 
ODE TO ANARCHY. 

BY A JACOBIN. 
(being an IMITATION OF HORACE, ODE XXXV. BOOK I.) 

Diva, gratum quce regis Antium ! 

Goddess, whose dire terrific power 
Spreads from thy much-loved Galha's plains 
Where'er her blood-stain'd ensigns lower, 
Where'er fell Eapine stalks, or barb'rous Discord reigns ! 

Thou, who canst lift to fortune's height 
The wretch by truth and virtue scorn'd, 
And crush with insolent delight, 
All whom true merit rais'd, or noble birth adorn'd ! 

Thee, oft the murd'rous band implores, 
Swift darting on its hapless prey : 
Thee, wafted from fierce Afric's shores, 
The Corsair Chief invokes to speed him on his way. 

Thee, the wild Indian Tribes revere ; 
Thy charms the roving Arab owns ; 
Thee, kings, thee tranquil nations fear, 
The bane of social bliss, the foe to peaceful thrones. 

For, soon as thy loud trumpet calls 
To deadly rage, to fierce alarms, 
Just Order's goodly fabric falls. 
Whilst the mad people cries, "To arms ! to arms ! " 



56 POETRY OF 

With thee Proscription, child of strife, 
With Death's choice implements, is seen, 
Her Murderer's gun, Assassin's knife, 
And, "last not least in love," her darling Guillutine. 

Fond Hope is thine, — the hoj)e of Spoil, 
And Faith, — such faith as ruffians keep : 
They prosper thy destructive toil, 
That makes the Widow mourn, the helpless Orphan weep. 

Then false and hollow friends retire, 

Nor yield one sigh to soothe despair ; 

Whilst crowds triumphant Vice admire, 
Whilst Harlots shine in robes that deck'd the Great 
and Fair. 

Guard our famed Chief to Britain's strand ! 

Britain, our last, our deadliest foe : 

Oh, guard his brave associate band ! 
A band to slaughter train'd, and "nursed in scenes of 
woe ". 

What shame, alas ! one little Isle 

Should dare its native laws maintain ! 

At Gallia's threats serenely smile, 
And, scorning her dread power, triumphant rule the main. 

For this have guiltless victims died 

In crowds at thy ensanguined shrine ! 

For this has recreant Gallia's pride 
O'erturned Eeligion's Fanes, and braved the Wrath 
Divine ! 

What Tliione, what Altar, have we spared 

To spiead thy power, thy joys impart ? 

x\h ! then, our faithful toils reward ! 
And let each falchion pierce some loyal Briton's heart. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 57 

[the following is a translation, by duncombe, of 
HORACE'S ODE TO FORTUNE, 

Of ivhich the above Ude is a ^Mvody. 
Goddess, whose propitious sway 
Thy Antium's favoiirite sons obey ; 
Whose voice from depth of woe recalls 
The wretch, and triumphs tm-ns to fmierals ; 

From Thee, rich crops the needy swam 
Implores. Thee, sovereign of the main, 
The mariner invokes, who braves 
In a Bithynian bark the Cretan waves ; 

Thee, Scj'thians, wandering far and near. 
And iim-elenting Dacians, fear : 
The warlike sons of Italy ; 
Cities, and realms, and empires, worship Thee. 

Mothers of bai'barons monarchs dread, 
And pm'ple tyrants, lest thon tread 
With spurning foot, and scatter romid 
The sculptured column on th' encumbered ground ; 

Aiad lest the fickle crowd should break 
Their bonds ; and with loud clamoiu's wake 
The peaceful to assert their right 
By force of arms, and quell usiirping might. 

Ruthless necessity prepares 
The way for Thee ; and ever bears 
Huge nails in her strong hands of brass 
The wedge, the hook, and lead's hot molten mass. 

Thee Hope and white robed Faith, adore, 
So rarely found! — She, Avhen no more 
Thou smil'st, attends the fallen great 
Stript of his gay attire and stately seat. 

But venal crowds and harlots fly : 
And, if the flowing casks are dry. 
When to the dregs the wine they drmk. 
From friendship's yoke the false associates shrink. 

Thy aid for Caesar Rome implores, 
Conduct him safe to Britain's shores, 
The limits of the world ; and lead 
Our new-raised bands against the trembling Mede. 



58 POETET OF 

Alas 1 we mourn our crimes, our scar 
And brethren slain in civU wars : 
How oft have Eoman youth embrued 
Their savage hands in sti'eams of social blood ! 

What has this Iron Age not dared? 
"What Gods revered ? ^^Hhat Altars spared ? 
! pomt again the blunted steel, 
And let the Massagete our vengeance feel ! — Ed.] 

The following Song is recommended to be sung at all 
Co7ivivial Meetings, convened for the purpose of opposing 
the Assessed-Tax Bill. The correspondent who has trans- 
mitted it to us informs us that he has tried it with great 
success among many of his well-disposed neighbours, who 
had been at first led to apprehend that the l-20th part of 
their income was too great a sacrifice for the preservation 
of the remainder of their property from French Confiscation. 

You have heard of Eewbell,* 

That demon of hell. 

And of Baeeas, his brother Director ; 

[*'ihe above verses refer to the memorable events of the 
18th Fructidor, Sept. 4, 1797 (the model of Prince Louis 
Napole'on's coup d'etat, Dec. 2, 1851), when Eewbell, Barras, 
and Larevelliere-Lepaiix, on the plea that the Republic was in 
danger, got rid of their fellow-directors, Carnot (grandfather to 
the present President of the French Republic) and Barthflemy, 
who were replaced by Merlin and Francois de Neufchateau, 
dispersed by military force the members of the Five Himdred 
and the Ancients, fifty-three of whom were condemned to 
transportation — banished the editors, &c., of forty-two news- 
papers — annulled the elections of fortj'-eight departments — 
and effected other arbitrary measures without opposition. The 
spruags of the movement were throughout directed by Buona- 
parte, seconded by Hoche and Augereau. This event was the 
true era of the commencement of military despotism in France. 
But Thiers considers "the Directory by these means pre- 
vented civil war, and substituted an arbitrary but necessary 
act of power, carried out with energy, but with all the mildness 
and modeiation that revolutionary times would allow "• — Ed.] 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 59 

Of the canting Lepaux, 
And that scoundrel Moreau, 

Who betray'd his old friend and protector. 

Would you know how these friends, 
For their own private ends, 

Would subvert our Eeligion and Throne ?— 
Do you doubt of their skill 
To change Laws at their will ?— 

You shall hear how they treated their own. 

'Twas their pleasure to look, 
In a little blue book, 

At the Code of their famed legislation, 
That with truth they might say, 
In the space of one day 

They had broke every Law of the Nation. 

The first law that they see, 
Is " the Press si tail he free ! " 

The next is "tJie Trial hi/ Jury": 
Then, "the People's free Choice "; 
Then, " the Memhers' free Voice" — 

When Eewbell exclaim'd in a fury — 

" On a method we'll fall T 

For infringing them all — 

We'll seize on each Printer and Member : 
No period so fit 
For a desperate hit, 

As our bloody month of Septeviher. 

"We'll annul each election 
Which wants our correction, 

And name our own creatures instead. 



60 POETRY OF 

When once we've our will, 
No blood we will spill, 

(But let Caenot be knock'd on the head). 

" To Rochefort we'll drive 
Our victims alive. 

And as soon as on board we have got 'em, 
Since we destine the ship 
For no more than one trip, 

We can just make a hole in the bottom. 

" By this excellent plan. 
On the true Rights of Mem, 

When we've founded owr fifth Revolution, 
Though EnglcouVs our foe, 
An army shall go 

To improve her corrupt Constitution. 

" We'll address to the Nation 
A fine Proclamation 

With offers of friendship so warm : 
Who can give Buonaparte 
A welcome so hearty 

As the friends of a thorough reform ? " 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 61 



No. X. 

Jan. 15, 1798. 
For the two following poems we are indebted to un- 
known correspondents. They could not have reached us 
at a more seasonable period. 

The former, we trust, describes the feelings common 
to every inhabitant of this country. The second, we 
know too well, is expressive of the sentiments of our 
enemies. 

LINES, 

WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1797. 

Loud howls the storm along the neighbouring shore ; 

Britain indignant hears the frantic roar : 

Her generous sons pour forth on every side, 

Firm in their country's cause — their country's pride ! 

See wild Invasion threats this envied land : 

Swift to defend her, springs each Social Band : 

Her white rocks echoing to their cheerful cry, 

" God and our King!" — " England and Victory ! " 

Yes ! happy Britain, on thy tranquil coast 
No trophies mad Philosophy shall boast ! 
Though thy disloyal sons, a feeble band, 
Sound the loud blast of treason through the land ; 
Scoff at thy dangers with unnatural mirth, 
And execrate the soil which gave them birth ; 
"With jaundiced eye thy splendid triumphs view, 
And give to France the palm to Britain due : 



62 POETRY OP 

Or, — when loud strains of gratulation ring,* 
And lowly bending to the Eternal King, 
Thy Sovereign bids a nation's praise arise 
In grateful incense to the fav'ring skies — 
Cast o'er each. solemn scene a scornful glance, 
And only sigh for anarchy and France. 

Yes ! unsupported Treasons standard falls, 
Sedition vainly on her children calls, 
While Cities, Cottages, and Camps contend. 
Their King, their Laws, their Country to defend. + 

Eaise, Britain, raise thy sea-encircled head ; 
Bound the wide world behold thy glory spread ; 
Firm as thy guardian oaks thou still shalt stand, 
The dread and wonder of each hostile land ; 

[ * Alluding to the National Thanksgiving for the three great 
naval victories achieved by Lords Howe, St. Vincent, and 
Duncan. On this occasion the Kmg and Queen, with their 
family, the Houses of Lords and Counnons, &c., went in pro- 
cession to St. Paul's, where Divine Service was performed. 
The Government Papers attributed to the Opposition Press a 
desire to throw discredit on this proceeding. "The conse- 
quence of the Procession to St. Paul's " (says the Morning Post, 
of Dec. 25) "was, thato?ie man returned thanks to the Almighty, 
and one woman was kicked to death." — Ed.] 

[t Mary Frampton, in her journal (Dec. 20, 1797), gives a 
lively accomit of the King's attendance at St. Paul's for 
Duncan's Victory on the 11th Oct. "The King," she says, 
" stopped under the dome, and conversed for some time with 
Lord Dimcan and the sailors ; and, to the great scandal of good 
chru-ch-goers, did not hold his tongue for any considerable time 
together during the service. . . . Pitt was attacked at Temple 
Bar by three ruffians, who rushed from the mob and seized 
upon the door of his carriage undoubtedly with an intent to 
drag him out, but three of the Light Horse Volunteers rode up, 
and backing their horses against them, sent them head over 
heels to the place from whence they came, rather faster than 
they ventured out." Page 99. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 63 

While the chre fiends of discord idly rave, 

And, mad with anguish, curse the severing v^ave. 

Queen of the ocean, lo ! she smiles serene, 
'Mid the deep horrors of the dreadful scene ; 
With heartfelt piety to Heav'n she turns — ■ 
From Heav'n the flame of British courage burns — 
She dreads no power but His who rules the ball. 
At whose " great bidding " empires rise and fall ; 
In Him, on peaceful plain, or tented field, 
She trusts, secure in His protecting shield — 
Gallia, thy threats she scorns — Britain shall never 

An Englishwoman. 



translation of the new song 

OF THE 

"AEMY OF ENGLAND". 
written by the ci-devant bishop of autun.* 

WITH NOTES BY THE TBANSLATOB. 

Good Eepublicans all, 
The Directory's call 

Invites you to visit John Bull ; 
Oppress'd by the rod 
Of a King, and a God,t 

The cup of his misery's full. 

[* Prince Talleyrand. — Ed.] 

■j- General Danican, in his Memoirs, tells us, that while he 
was in command, a felon, who had assmned the name of Brutus, 
chief of a revolutionary tribunal at Rennes, said to his colleagues, 
on Good Friday, " Brothers, we must put to death this day, at 
the same hour the counter-revolutionist Christ died, that young 
devotee who was lately arrested " : and this yoxmg lady was 
guillotined accordingly, and her corpse treated with every 
possible species of indecent insult, to the infinite amusement of a 
vast multitude of spectators. 



64 POETRY OF 

Old Johnny shall see 
What makes a man free ; 

Not parchments, nor Statutes on Paper ; 
And stripp'd of his riches, 
Great Charter, and breeches, 

Shall cut a fkee Citizen's caper. 

Then away, let us over 
To Deal, or to Dover— 

We laugh at his talking so big ; 
He's pamper'd with feeding, 
And wants a sound bleeding — 

Par Die /I f he shall bleed like a pig ! 

John, tied to the stake, 
A grand baiting will make, 

When worried by mastiffs of France ; 
What Eepublican fun. 
To see his blood run. 

As at Lijons, La Vendee, and Nantz/* 

*The reader will tind iu the works of Peter Porcupine [W. 
Cobbett] (a spirited and instructive writer) an ample and 
satisfactory commentary on this and the following stanza. 
The French themselves inform us, that by the several modes 
of destruction here alluded to, upwards of 30,000 persons were 
butchered at Lyons, and this once magnificent city almost 
levelled to the ground, by the command of a wretched actor 
(CoLLOT d'Herbois), whom they had formerly hissed from the 
stage. From the same authorities we learn, that at Nantz 
27,000 persons, of both sexes, were murdered ; chiefly by 
drowning them in plugged boats. The waters of the Loire 
became putrid, and were forbidden to be drunk, by the savages 
who conducted the massacre : — that at Paris 150,000, and in 
La Vende'e 300,000 persons were destroyed. — Upon the whole, 
the French themselves acknowledge, that two millions of 
huinan beings (exclusive of the military) have been sacrificed 
to the principles of Equality and the Eights of Man : 250,000 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 65 

With grape-shot discharges, 
And plugs in his barges, 

With National Razors good store, 
We'll pepper and shave him, 
And in the Thames lave him — 

How sweetly he'll bellow and roar ! 

What the villain likes worse, 
We'll vomit his Pm'se, 

And make it the guineas disgorge ; 
For your Raphaels and Eubens 
We would not give two-pence ; 

Stick, stick to the pictures of George. 

No Venus of stone, 

But of good flesh and bone, 

Will do for a true Democrat ; 
When weary with slaughter, 
With John's Wife and Daughter, 

We'll join in a little chit-chat. 



of these are stated to be women, and 30,000 children. In this 
last nmuber, however, they do not inchide the unborn ; nor 
those who started from the bodies of their agonizing parents, 
and were stuck upon the bayonets of those very men who are 
now to compose the "Army of England," amidst the most 
savage acclamations. 

[At the beginning of the revolution, some companies of 
childi-en, called Bonsbons, were dressed and drilled as National 
Guards, as a compliment to the Dauphin, who to please the 
Parisians sometimes donned that uniform. Similar companies 
were afterwards formed in Brittany, and employed to shoot 
those poor wretches whom the two guillotines could not 
dispatch in suflficient numbers ! — Biog. tfniv., art. St. Andr4. 
—Ed.] 

5 



66 POETRY OF 

The Shop-keeping hoard, 
The Tenant and Lord, 

And the Merchants,* are excellent prey 
At our cannon's first thunder, 
Rape, pillage, Q.udi pAunder 

The Order shall be of the day. 

French fortunes and lives, 
French daughters and wives, 

^Qave Jive lionest men to defend 'em ! 
And Bakeas and Co. 
When to England we go. 

Will kindly take John's in commendam. 



*At Lyons, Jabogues, the second murderer (the Actor being 
the first), in his speech to the Democratic Society, used these 
words — " Down with the edifices raised for the profit or the 
pleasiu'e of the rich ; down with them all. Commerce and 
AKTS are useless to a warlike people, and are the destruction of 
that SUBLIME Equality which France is determined to spread 
over the globe." Such are the consequences of Eadical Beform I 
Let any merchant, farmer, or landlord ; let any husband or 
father consider this, and then say, ^^ Shall ive or shall ive not 
contrihiUe a moderate sum, IN proportion to our annual expen- 
diture,/©?' the ■pur'pose of preserving ourselves from the fate of Lyons, 
La Vendee, and NantzV 

Styptic. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 67 



No. XL 

Jan. 22, 1798. 

We have said in another part of our paper of this day, 
"that though we shall never begin an attack, \fe shall 
always be prompt to repel it ". 

On this principle, we could not pass over in silence the 
Epistle to the Editoes of the Anti-JacoJdn, which ap- 
peared in the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday, and from 
which we have fortunately been furnished with a motto 
for this day's paper. 

We assure the author of the epistle, that the answer 
which we have here the honour to address to him, con- 
tains our genuine and undisguised sentiments upon the 
merits of the poem. 

Our conjectures respecting the authors and abettors of 
this performance may possibly be as vague and unfounded 
as theirs are with regard to the Editoes of the Anti-Jaco- 
bin. We are sorry that we cannot satisfy their curiosity 
upon this subject — but we have little anxiety for the gra- 
tification of our own. 

It is hardly to be expected, that the character of the 
epistle should be taken on trust from the editors of this 
volume ; it is thought best, therefore, to subjoin the 
whole performance as it originally appeared — a mode of 
hostility obviously the most fair, and m respect to the 
combatants in the cause of Jacobinism, by much the 
most effectual. They are always best opposed by the 
arms which they themselves furnish. Jacobinism shines 
by its own light. 



68 POETRY OF 

To the respectable names which the author of the fol- 
lowing address has thought proper to connect with the 
" Anti- Jacobin," no apology is made for thus preserving 
this otherwise perishable specimen of dulness and defa- 
mation. He who has been reviled by the enemies of the 
" Anti- Jacobin," must feel that principles are attributed 
to him, of which he need not be ashamed : and when the 
abuse is conveyed in such a strain of feebleness and folly, 
he must see that those principles excite animosity only 
in quarters of which he need not be afraid. 

It is only necessary to add, what is most conscientiously 
the truth, that this production, such as it is, is hy far the 
best of all the attacks that the combined wits of the cause 
have been able to muster against the " Anti- Jacobin ". 

EPISTLE TO THE EDITOKS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.* 

Hie Niger est ; hunc tii, Eomane, caveto ! 



To tell what gen'rals did, or statesmen spoke, 
To teach the world by truths, or please by joke ; 
To make mankind grow bold as they peruse, 
Judge on existing things, and — weigh the news ; 
For this a paper first display'd its page. 
Commanding tears and smiles through ev'ry age I 

Hail, justly famous ! who in modern daj's 
With nobler flight aspire to higher praise ; 
Hail, justly famous ! whose discerning eyes 
At once detect mistakes, mis-statements, lies ; 10 

Hail, justly famous ! who with fancy blest. 
Use fiend-like vii'ulence for sportive jest ; 
"Who only bark to serve your private ends — 
Patrons of Prejudice, Corruption's friends ! 
Who hurl yoiu" venom'd darts at well-earned fame — 
Virtue your hate, and Calunmy your aim ! 

["^ Probably written by the Rt. Hon. John Courtnay.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 69 

"Whoe'er ye are, all hail ! — whether the skill 
Of youthful Canning giiides the ranc'roiis quill ; 
With powers mechanic far above his age, 
Adapts the paragraph and fills the page ; 20 

Measures the column, mends whate'er's amiss, 
Eejects that letter, and accepts of this ; 
Or HAiniOND, leaving his official toil, 
O'er this great work consume the midnight oil — 
Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit. 
And change dull biisiness for amusing wit : — 
His life of labour at one gasp is o'er. 
His books forgot — his desk beloved no more ! 
Proceed to prop the Ministerial cause ; 
See consequential Morpeth nods applause ; 30 

In ev'ry fair one's ears at balls and plays 
The gentle Granville Leveson whispers praise : 
Well-judging Patrons, whom such works can please ; 
Great works, well worthy Patrons such as these ! 



Who heard, not raptured, the poetic Sage 
Who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage, 
And blandly drew with no xm courtly grace 
The simple manners of oin- English race — 
ExtoU'd great Duncan, and, supremely brave, 
Whelm'd Buonaparte's pride beneath the wave ? 40 

I swear by all the youths that Malmesbury chose. 
By Ellis' sapient prominence of nose, 
B3' Morpeth's gait, important, proud, and big — 
B.y Leveson Gower's crop-imitating wig, 
That, could the pow'rs which in those numbers shme, 
Could that warm spirit animate my line, 
Yoiu' glorious deeds which humbly I rehearse — 
Your deeds should live immortal as my verse ; 
And, while they wonder'd whence I caught my flame. 
Your sons should blush to read their fathers' shame ! 50 



Pi'oceed, great men ! — your office is not done ; 
Proceed with what you haA'e so well begun : 
Load Fox (if you by Pitt would be preferr'd), 
AVith ev'ry guilt that Kenyon ever heard— 
Adult'rer, gamester, drunkard, cheat and knave, 
A factious demagogue and pension'd slave ! 



70 POETBY OF 

Loose, loose your cry — with ire satiric flash : 

Let all the Opposition feel yoiir lash ; 

And prove them to these hot and partial times, 

A combination of the worst of crimes I 60 

But softer numbers softer subjects fit : 
In liquid phrases thrill the praise of Pitt ; 
Extol in eulogies of candid truth 
The Virgin Minister — the Heav'n-born Youth ; 
The greatest gift that fate to England gave, 
Created to support and born to save ; 
Prompt to supply whate'er his coimtry lacks — 
Skilful to GAG, and knowing how to tax ! 
AVith him companions meet in order stand — 
A firm, compact, and well-appointed band ; 70 

Skill'd to advance or to retreat, Dundas, 
And bear thick battle on his front of brass ; 
Geenville with pond'roiTS head, which match'd we find 
By equal ponderosity behind. — - — - 

But hold, my Muse ; nor farther these piirsue I — 
Great Editors, we have digress'd from you ; 
From you, to whom our trivial lays belong, 
From you, the sole inspirers of our song ! 
Proceed : — urge on the same vindictive strain. 
To gain the applauses of great Malmesbury's train ; 80 
With jaundiced eyes the noblest patriot scan : 
Proceed — be more opprobrious if you can ; 
Proceed — be more abusive ev'ry hour ; 
To be more stupid is beyond your power. 

Line 10. — [One of the fiistinguishing features of the " Anti-Jacobin " was 
their articles devoted to an exposure of the " Lies, Misrepresentations, and 
Mistakes " of the Opposition Press. — Ed.] 

Line 23. — [George Hammond, at this time Canning's colleague as Under- 
Secretary of State ; the latter being succeeded by John Hookham Frere. — Ed.] 

Line 30. — [Lord Morpeth, son of the (fifth) Earl of Carlisle who was satirized 
by Byron in " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers". — Ed. | 

Line 32. — [George Granville Leveson Gower, eldest son of the first Marquis 
of Stafford, born in 1758, became second Marquis in 1803, and created Duke of 
.Sutherland in 1833. He was one of Canning's intimate college companions. — 
Ed.] 

Line 41. — [James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, one of the most distin- 
guished of Englisli diiiliiuiatists. His "Diaries and Correspondence," pub- 
lished by his giandson, the third Earl, throw much light on the transactions of 
the eventful period to wliieh they refer. — Ed.] 

Line 42.— TGeorge Ellis, the accomplished editor of the "Specimens of the 
Early English Poets, and of Early English Metrical Romances," &c. In early 
life he contributed to the liolliad, being the author of Nos. 1 and 2, in Part I., 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 71 

and Nos. 1 and 2, in Pait II. Of the Political Eclogues he wrote the one entitled 
" Charles Jenkin.son ". In the ProOationari/ Odes, he wrote No. II. " Ode on the 
New Year, by Lord Mulsrave," and No. XX. " Irregular Ode for the King's 
Birth Day, by Sir G. Howard ". Afterwards, however, he became niiicli attached 
t(5 Pitt, and acted as Secretary to Lord ^lalmesbury during his unsuccessful 
negotiations with the French for peace, at Lisle, 1797. Horace Walpole thus 
alludes to him, in a letter of 24111 June, 17S3 : " English people are in fashion at 
Versailles. A Mr. Ellis, who wrote some pretty verses at Bath two or three 
years ago, is a favourite there." Sir Walter Scott addressed to him Canto V. of 
" Marmion". He died in 1S1.5, aged 70. — Ed.] 

Line 71. — [The Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards created Viscount Mel- 
ville), in the Commons, and Lord Grenville in the Lords, were Pitt's most 
efficient supporters.— Ed.] 



TO THE AUTHOR OF THE EPISTLE TO THE 
EDITORS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

Nostrorum sermonum candide judex I 

Bard of the borrow 'cl lyre ! to whom belong 
The shreds and remnants of each hackney 'd song ; 
Whose verse thy friends in vain for wit explore, 
And comit but one good line in eighty-four ! 
Whoe'er thou art, all hail ! Thy bitter smile 
Gilds our dull page, and cheers our humble toil ! 

For yet — though firm and fearless in the cause 
Of pure Eeligion, Liberty, and Laws, — 
Though TRUTH approved, though fav'ring virtue smiled, 
Some doubts remained : we yet were nnreviled. 10 

Thanks to thy zeal ! those doubts at length are o'er ! 
Thy suffrage crowns our wish ! — we ask no more 
To stamp with sterling worth each honest line, 
Than Censure, cloth' d in vapid Verse like thine ! 

But say — in full blown honours dost thou sit 
'Midst Brookes's elders on the bench of wit. 
Where Hare, chief-justice, frames the stern decree. 



72 POETRY OF 

While with their learned brother, sages three, 
FiTZPATRiCK, TowNSHEND, Sheeidan, agree? 

Or art thou One — the party's flattered fool, 20 

Train'd in Dehretfs, or Ridgiuays civic school — 
One, who with rant and fustian daily wears. 
Well-natured Eichaedson ! thy patient ears ; — 
Who sees nor Taste nor Genius in these times, 
Save Parr's huzz prose,* and Couetenay's kidnapp'd 
rhymes ? + 



* Buzz Prose. — The learned reader will perceive that this is 
an elegant metonymy, by which the quality belonging to the 
outside of the head is transferred to the inside. Buzz is an 
epithet usually applied to a large wig. It is here iised for 
swellmg, biu'ly, bombastic writing. 

There is a pictm-e of Hogarth's (the Election Ball, we 
believe), in which there are a number of Hats thrown together 
in one corner of the room ; and it is remarked as a peculiar 
excellence that there is not a Hat among them of which yoii 
cannot to a certainty point out the owner among the figiu'es 
dancing, or otherwise distributed through the picture. 

We remember to have seen an experiment of this kind tried 
at one of the Universities Avith the wig and writings here alluded 
to. A page taken from the most happy and elaborate part of 
the writings was laid upon a table in a barber's shop, romid 
which a number of wigs of different descriptions and dimensions 
were suspended, and among them that of the Author in qiiestion. 
It was required of a young student, after reading a few sentences 
in the page, to point out among the wigs that which nmst of 
necessity belong to the Head in which siich sentences had been 
engendered. The experiment succeeded to a miracle. The 
learned reader will now see all the beauty and propriety of the 
metonymy. 

f Kidnapp'd Ehymes. — Kidnapp'd implies something more 
than stolen. It is, according to an expression of Mr. Sheridan's 
(in the " Critic "), using other peo^le''s " thoughts as gi2)sies do stolen 
children — disfiguring them, to maJce them jmss for their ovm ". 

This is a serious charge against an author, and ought to be 
well supported. To the proof then ! 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. . 73 

Or is it he, — the youth, whose daring soul 

With half a mission sought the Frozen Pole ; — 

And then, returning from the unfinish'd work, 

Wrote half a Utter, — to demolish Bueke ? 

Studied Burke's manner, — aped his forms of speech ; 30 



In an Ode of the late Lord Nugent's are the following 
spirited lines : 

"Though Cato liv'd — though Tully spoke — * 
Though Brutus dealt the godlike stroke, 
Yet perish'd fated Eome ! " 

The author above mentioned saw these lines, and liked them 
— as well he might ; and as he had a mind to write about Eome 
huuself, he did not scruple to enlist them into his service ; but 
he thought it right to make a small alteration in their appear- 
ance, which he managed thxis. Speaking of Eome, he sajs it is 
the place 

''Wliere Cato liv'd":— 

A sober truth ! which gets rid at once of all the poetry and 
sphit of the original, and reduces the sentiment from an 
example of manners, virtue, patriotism, from the vitm exemplar 
dedit of Lord Nugent, to a mere question of uihabitancy. Ubi 
habitavit Cato- -where he was an mhabitant-householder, paying 
scot and lot, and had a house on the right-hand side of the way, 
as you go down Esquiline Hill, just opposite to the poulterer's. 
But to proceed — 

" Where Cato liv'd ; where Tully spoke. 
Where Brutus dealt the godlike stroke — 
— By ivhich his glory rose ! ! ! " 

The last line is not borrowed. 

We question whether the history of modern literature can 
produce an instance of a theft so shameless, and turned to so 
little advantage. 

[' Horace Walpole, in a letter to Hannah More, quotes one word of these 
verses incorrectly, writing : — " Though Cato dud," an error which P. Cunning- 
ham allows to pass, as also another," that Mr. — instead of iorti— Nugent wrote 
tbeni. — Ed.] 



74 . POETRY OF 

Though when he strives his metaphors to reach, 

One luckless slip his meaning overstrains, 

And loads the blunderbuss with Bedford's brains." 

* And loads the blunderbuss until Bedford's brains. — This line 
is wholly iinintelligible without a note. And we are afraid the 
note will be wholly incredible, unless the reader can fortunately 
procure the book to which it refers. 

In the " Part of a Letter," which was published by Mr. Eobt. 
Adair, in answer to Mr. Burke's "Letter to the D. of B.," 
nothing is so remarkable as the studious imitation of Mr. 
Burke's style. 

His vehemence, and his passion, and his irony, his wild 
imagery, his far-sought illustrations, his rolling and lengthened 
periods, and the short quick pointed sentences in which he 
often condenses as much wisdom and wit as others would ex- 
pand through pages, or through volumes, — all these are care- 
fully kept in view by his opponent, though not always very 
artificially copied or applied. 

But imitators are liable to be led strangely astra_y ; and never 
was there an instance of a more complete mistake of a plain 
meaning, than that which this line is intended to illustrate — a 
mistake no less than that of a coffin for a corpse. This is hard 
to believe or to comprehend — but you shall hear. 

Mr. Burke, in one of his publications, had talked of the 
French ^^ wvplumbinci the dead in order to destroy the living," — 
by which he intended, without doubt, not metaphorically, but 
literally, '■'■stripping the dead of their leaden coffins, and then 
maldng them {not the dead but the coffins) into bullets". A 
circumstance perfectly notorious at the time the book was 
written. 

Biit this does not satisfy our author. He determines to 
retort Mr. Burke's own words upon him ; and unfortunately 
"reaching at a metaphor," where Mr. Burke only intended a 
fact, he falls into the little mistake above mentioned, and by a 
stroke of his pen transmutes the illustrious Head of the house 
of EussELL into a metal, to which it is not for us to say how 
near or how remote his affinity may possibly have been. He 
writes thus — "1/ Mr. Burke had been content with '■unplumbing' 
a dead Russell, and hewing HIM (observe — not the coffin, but 
Hill — the old dead Eussell himself) into qrape and canister, to 
sweep down the v:hole generation of his descendants," d-c, d'C. 

The thing is scarcely credible ; but it is so ! We write 
with the book open before us. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 75 

Whoe'er thou art — ne'er may thy patriot fire, 
Unfed by praise or patronage, expire ! 
Forbid it, Taste ! — with Compensation large 
Patrician hands thy labours shall o'ercharge ! ■■'• 
Bedfobd and Whitbread shall vast sums advance, 
The L'dhl and 31alt of Jacobin Finance ! 

Whoe'er thou art — before thy feet we lay, 40 

With lowly suit, our Number of to-day ! 
Spurn not our offering with averted eyes ! 
Let thy pure breath revive the extinguished Lies I 
Midakes, Mis-t<t ate meats, now so oft o'erthrown, 
Eebuild, and prop with nonsense of thy own ! 
Pervert our meaning, and misquote our text — 
And furnish its a motto for the next ! 



* Qu. — Surcharge '? 
Line 16.— [Brookes's Club was the grand rendezvous of the Whigs.— Ed.] 

Line 17.— [JAS. Hare was M.P. for Knaresborough, and one of the most 
brilliant wit.s of the Whig Party. At Eton his verses were hung up as speci- 
mens of excellence. Great expectations were raised as to his eloquence in the 
House of Commons. But his timidity was so great that he broke down in his 
first speech, and this failure, joined with delicate health, prevented a second 
attempt. Horace Walpole speaks of his " brilliancy and tire," and of his own 
inferiority to him. His bons mnts were innumerable. He died in 1S04. The 
following is Lord Ossory's opinion of the social talents of some of the best 
talkers of his day :— " Horace Walpole was an agreeable, lively man, very 
affected, always aiming at wit, in which he fell very short of his old friend, 
George Sklw vn, who possessed it in the most genuine but indescribable degi'ee. 
Hare's conversation abounded with wit. and perhaps of a more lively kind ; so 
did BuiiKE's, though with much alloy of bad taste ; but, upon the whole, my 
brother the General [Fitzpatkick] was the most agreeable man in society of 
any of them." — MS., R. Vernon Smith.— Ed.] 

Line 19.— [General Fitzp.\trick was one of Fox's most attached friends 
and political supporters. Bo.swell, speaking of a dinner at Beauclerk'.s, 24th 
April, 1779, says, on a celebrated wit being mentioned (believed to Vie Fitzpatrick), 
" JOHX.SO.N replied, 'I have been several times in company with him, but never 
perceived any strong power of wit. He produces a general effect by various 
means ; he has a cheerful countenance and a gay voice. Besides his trade is 
wit. It would be as w ild in him to come into company without merriment, as 
for a highwayman to take the road without his pistols."' Walpole (in his 
Joarnalfifthc HiiijiiofGcoiije in.,\. 167, and ii. 560, describes him as "an agreeable 
young man of partsj" and" mentions his "genteel irony and badinage ". He was 
Lord Shelburne's brother-in-law, at whose house Johnson might have met him, 
as well as in Fox's company. Rogers {Tuhh Talk, p. 104) said that Fitzpatrick 
was at one time nearly as famous for his wit as Hare. He possessed no mean 



76 POETKY OF 

poetic talents, particularly for compositions of wit, fancy, and satire. To the 
Kolllad he contributed " F.xtract from the Dedication " ; Nos. v. ix. and xii., in 
Part I. ; and No. v. in Part II. In the Pd/iticcl Eclogues, he wrote " The Liars " ; 
and "Pindaric Ode" (No. xv.)— also, "Incantation for raising a Phantom, 
imitated from Macbeth," in the Political ilisccllunies. 



GENERAL RICHARD FITZPATRICK'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF. 

" My ow.n Epitaph. 

" Whose turn is next? This monitory Stone 
Replies, vain Passenger, perhaps thy own. 
If, idly curious, thou wilt seek to know 
Whose relics mingle with the dust below, 
Enough to tell thee, that his destin'd span 
On Earth he dwelt,— and, like thyself, a Man. 
Nor distant far th' inevitable day 
When thou, poor mortal, shalt like him be clay. 
Through life he walk'd unemulous of fame. 
Nor wish'd beyond it to preserve a name. 
Content, if Friendship, o'er his humble bier, 
Drop but the heartfelt tribute of a tear ; 
Though countless ages should unconscious glide. 
Nor learn that ever he had liv'd, or died. 

"R. F." 

Such is the epitaph placed on a stone sarcophagus in the usual form, in the 
churchyard at Sunninghill, close to the house wliere (Jen. Fitzpatrick's friend, 
G. Ellis, died.— Nichols, Lit. Illt'itr., vol. vii., pp. C33-4.— Ed.] 

Line 19.— [Lord John Tow.nshend, the second son of the first Marquis 
Townshend. He represented Cambridge till ousted by Pitt at the general 
election in 1784. In 17SS he became the colleague of Fox for Westminster. He 
afterwards represented Knaresborough for twenty-five years : his colleague in 
1797 was Hare. Tie had great powers of wit and satire. In the Political 
Eclogues (subjoined to Tin: Jiolticd), he wrote the one entitled "Jekyll". To 
the Probationary Oilcs for the LannatMp he contributed No. xii., in ridicule of 
■NVarren Hastings's agent, Major John Scott, M.P. Also, the "Dialogue 
between a certain per.sonage and his Minister," in imitation of the Ninth Ode 
of Horace, Book III.— Ed.] 

Line 20.— [Sir Francis Burdett, then M.P. for Boroughbridge.— Ed.] 

Line 23.— [John Richardson, M.P. for Newport, Cornwall, and one of the 
proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre. In the Jiolliad he was the author, in Part 
I., of Nos. iv., X., and xi. ; and in Part II. of Nos. iii. and iv. He wrote No. iv. 
of Probationary Odes, in ridicule of Sir R. Hill, Bart. ; No. xix. on Viscount 
Mountmorres, and the concluding prose portion. To the Political 3fisccllanie.i 
he contributed, " This is the House that George Built," and in conjunction 
with Tickell, the "Epigrams by Sir Cecil Wray," " Pretymaniana," and 
"Foreign Epigrams". In the latter Dr. Laurence assisted them. Also "A 
Tale: At Bi'ookes's once it so fell out". "Theatrical Intelligence Extraordinary." 
" Epigram : VVhu shall Expect the Country's Friend ? " "A new Ballad : Billy 
Eden," in conjunction with Tickell. " Proclamation." He died in 1803. — Ed.] 

Line 25.— [The Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., was not only a great scholar, but 
an uncompromising Whig, and one of Fox's most enthusiastic supporters. His 
conversational powers were great, and his arguments were enforced by boki- 
ness, dogmatism, and arrogance, which qualities, however, did not always 
exempt him from stinging retorts even from the fair sex. The following, 
among other attacks, appears in Crabb Robinson's interesting Diary, ii. 457 : — 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 77 



A RECIPE. 

To half of BvsBY's skill in mood and tense 

Add Bentley's pleasantly, without his sense : 

Of Wakburton take all the spleen you find, 

And leave his genius and his wit behind. 

Squeeze Churchill's rancour from the verse it flows in, 

And knead it stiff with Johnson's heavy prosing. 

Add all the piety of St. Voltaire, 

3Iix the gross compound— i<"i'«f Dr. Parr. 

His person, in full canonicals, with capacious wig, unfailing tobacco pipe and 
tankard, is, with the effigies of many other noted politicians of the period, intro- 
duced into a spirited bacchanalian scene by Gillray, published in 1801, entitled 
The Union Club. 

Line 20.— [John Courtenay was for many years one of the men of mark in 
the House of Commons for his ability, independent spirit, erudition, and coarse 
sarcastic wit. He was born at Carlingford, Ireland, in 1738. Having obtained 
the patronage of George, Viscount Townshend, Lord-Lieutenant (1767-72), he 
became the principal writer in the " Batckdor," a government paper, distin- 
guished by genuine wit and humour, conducted by Simcox, a clergyman ; 
Ricliard ilarlay, afterwards Bishop of Waterford and Lismore ; Robert Jephson, 
a dramatic poet of note ; the Rev. Mr. Boroughs, and others. The chief task of 
these advocates of the Castle was to counteract the " Baratarian IMers," nn 
Irish imitation of Junius, which, attacking the Lord-Lieutenant's government, 
received contributions from Flood, and fiist published Grattan's character of 
Chatham. At the " Coalition," 1783, he was appointed Surveyor-general of the 
Ordnance, and henceforward attached himself to Fox. He wrote, among other 
works, A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel 
Johnson, LL.D., 17S6 ; The Rape of Pomona, an Elegiac Epistle from the Waiter at 
Hockrel to the Hon. Mr. Zyttelton, 1773 ; Philosophical Reflections on the late Revolu- 
tion in France; and a Biographical Sketch of his oicn Life. In his Epistles in Rhyme 
he thus ridicules Horace Walpole's Straiobcrry Verses on the two Misses Berry: — 

" Who to love tunes his note, with the fire of old age, 
And chirps the trim lay in a trim Gothic cage ". 

"Walpole, however (Correspondence, ix. 434-5), good-naturedly laughed at them, 
saying that these verses on himself were really some of the best in the whole 
set. Courtenay was a member of The Litirar;/ Club, founded by Sir Joshua Rey- 
nolds, and figures in several of Gillray's caricatures. He it was who, referring 
to Gay's Bcumirs' Opera, designated the author the Orpheus of Jlighmti/inen. He 
tiled 2-tth March, ISIO.— Ei'.] 

Line 26. — [Sir Robert Adair. Some observations on his alleged mission to 
St. Petersburgh to counteract the measures of Government will be found on a 
subsequent page. The publication here satirized is entitled "Part of a Letter 
from Robert Adair, Esq., to the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox ; occasioned by Mr. Burke's 
mention of Lord Keppel in a recent publication," London, Debrett, 1796, and is 
by no means a contemptible composition. It is called "Part of a Letter," be- 
cause it is a portion of a longer one, being only the part devoted to a 
vindication of the writer's uncle. Admiral Lord Keppel, and of Fox ; with 
characteristic delineations of Sir G. .Saville, the Marquis of Rockingham, Lord 
North, and George Byng, M.P., on all of whom he passes great compliments. — 
Ed.] 



78 POETRY OF 

ODE TO LOED MOIEA. 
I. 

If on your head * some vengeance fell, 
MoiRA, for every tale you tell, 

The listening Lords to cozen ; 
If but one whisker lost its hue, 
Changed (like Moll Coggin's tail) to blue, 

I'd hear them by the dozen. 
II. 
But still, howe'er you draw your bow,t 
Your charms improve, your triumphs grow. 

New grace adorns your figure ; 
More stiff your boots, more black your stock, 10 
Your hat assumes a prouder cock. 

Like Pistol's (if 'twere bigger). 
III. 
Tell then your stories, strange and new, 
Your Fathers fame j shall vouch them true ; 

So shall the Duhlin Papers ; 
Swear bv the stars § that saw the sight, 



*HOEACE, ODE VIII., BOOK IL 

IN BARINEM. 

Ulla si juris tibi pejerati 
Pcena, Barine, nocuisset unquam, 
Dente si nigro fieres, vel uno 

Turfior ungui, 
Crederem. fSed tu simul obligusti 
Perfidum votis capiot, enitescis 
Pulchrior multo, juvenumque prodis 

Publica cura. 
% Expedit matris cineres opertos 
Fallere, et toto § taciturna noctis 
Signa ciim coelo, gelidaque Divos 

Morte carentes. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 79 

That infant thousands die each night, 
Wliile troops hhnv out their tapers. 

IV. 

Shuckbuegh''^ shall cheer you with a smile, 
MACPHEBSONt simpering all the while, 20 

With Bastard t and with Bruin -.f 
And fierce Nicholl,J who wields at will 
Th' emphatic stick, or powerful quill, 

To prove his country's ruin. 

V. 

Each day new followers § crowd your board. 
And lean expectants hail my Lord 

With adoration fervent : 
Old Thuklow,|| though he swore by G — 
No more to own a master's nod, 

Is still your humble servant, 30 

VI. 

Old Pulteney^ too, your influence feels, 
And asks from you th' Exchequer Seals, 
To tax and save the nation : 



Ridet hoc, inquam, * Venus ipsa; ritient 
Siviplices f Nymplice, ferus et J Cupido 
Sempier ardentes acuens sagittas 

Cote cruenta. 

Adde qiiod pubes tibi crescit omnis, 

^ Servitus crescit nova; \\nec j^riores 
Impice tectum domince relinqiiunt, 

iia'pe minati. 

Te suis matres metuunt juvencis ; 
Te ^ senes parci, miserceque § nuper 
Virgines nuptK, tua ne retardet 

Aura Maritos. 



80 POETEY OF 

ToOKE trembles,* lest your potent charms 
Should lure Charles Fox§ from his fond arms, 
To YOUR Administration. 36 

* The trepidation of Mr. Tooke, though natural, was not 
necessary ; as it appeared honi the ever-memorable " Letter to 
Mr. M'Mahon " (which was published about this time in the 
Morning Chronicle, and threw the whole town into paroxysms 
of laughter), that in the Administration which his Lordship 
was so gravely employed in forming, Mr. Fox was to have no 
place ! 

[TRANSLATION OF HORACE, BOOK JL, ODE VIII. 

BY ARCHDEACON WKANGHAM. 

Avenger of insulted truth, 
Had Heaven, Barine, dimm'd one tootli ; 
Or bade, in justice bade, thee wail 
A speck upon a single nail — 
I'd trust thee : but ere well the vow 
Has passed those treacherous lips, there glow 
New beauties mantling o'er thy cheek ; 
And thee the youth, thee only seek. 

It profits thee to be forsworn 
By thy dead mother's hallowed urn ; 
By heaven, and each niuto nightly sign. 
And every deathless jio^er divine. 
Yes : Venus laughs well-pleased, and lo ! 
The gentle Nymphs are laughing too ; 
And Cupid, who his burning darts 
Whets with fresh blood from lovers' hearts. 

Boyhood is rising to thy sway. 
Thy train of slaves augments : e'en they, 
Who swore thy threshold to forsake. 
Hug the fond chain they cannot break. 
Thee for their sons pale mothers fear. 
The frugal father for his heir : 
And plighted maidens, lest thy charms 
Keep the false truants from their arms. — Ed.] 

NOTES TO THE ODE TO LORD MOIRA. 

[This Ode, written by George Ellis, refers to the wish of a " Third Party" 
in the House of Commons, who were dissatisfied with the conduct of the war, 
the embarrassed state of the finances, and the alarming situation of the coun- 
try, to have an interview with Loud JNIoira, with a view to effect a change of 
.Ministry. The following extracts from a letter from his Lordship to COL. 
M'Mahon, dateci June 15, 1797, will throw some light on this negotiation. 
"They requested that I would endeavour, on the assurance of their support, to 
form an administration, on the principle of excluding persons, who had on 
either side made themselves obnoxious to the public. I strenuously recom- 
mended them to form an alliance with Mr. Fox's party, that might be satisfac- 
tory to themselves, and reduce to strict engagement the extent of the measures, 
Avhich Mr. Fox, when brought into oiiice by themselves, would propose. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 81 

Hitherto nobody has been designated to any pavticulai- office but Sir William 
Pllteney. The gentleman had said that he was the person whom they should 
be most gratiUed in seeing Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I had pro- 
fessed to them and to him that there was not any person with whom I could 
act more contidently. I added, the introduction of LORD Thurlow, Sir W. 
PuLTENEV, and myself, into the Cabinet, would not assure the public of a 
change of system." — Ed.] 

Line 3.— [Referring to Lord Moira's complaints against the Government 
agents, for unnecessary cruelty to the Irish rebels. — ED.] 

Line 13. — [The following attack upon Lord Moira, "for his patriotic zeal, 
and the correctness and propriety with which he gave, in the upper House of 
Parliament, an account of the insurrection upon his estates, and in other parts 
of Ireland," is extracted from the " Batehdor". These observations were there 
pointed at the father of Lord JNIoira, but have been adapted by the Author of 
the Ode and the Artist to the son. 

Lord Moira. — " My Lords, I rise to return my thanks to the Noble Lord who 
spoke last. I can testify the truth of all he has asserted. At the time of the 
Insurrection in the North, I had frequent and intimate conversations with that 
celebrated enchanter, Moll Oujiiiii. I have often seen her riding on a black ram 
with a blue tail. Once I endeavoured to Are at her, but my gun melted in my 
hand into a clear jelly. This jelly I tasted, and if it had been a little more acid, 
it would have been most excellent. The Noble Lords may laugh ; but I declare 
the fact upon my veracity, which has never been doubted. Once I pursued this 
fiend into my ale cellar : she rode instantly out of my sight into the bung-hole 
of a beer barrel. .She was at that time mounted on her black ram with the 
blue tail. Some time after, my servants were much surprised to find their ale 
full of Oiuc hairs. I was not surprised, as I knew the blue hairs were the hairs 
of the rani's liluc tail. Noble Lords may stare, but the fact is as I relate it. 
This Moll Co(/gi)i was the flend who raised the Oak-'joys to rebellion. I was .also 
well acquainted with the two Cow-boys mentioned by the Noble Lord ; they 
were my tenants, and were certainly endowed with supernatural powers. I 
have known one of them tear up by the loots an Oak two hundred feet high, 
and bear it upright on his head four miles ! his party wei'e on that account 
called Oak-boys. Noble Lords may laugh, but I speak from certain knowledge. 
The Oak-tree grew in my garden, and I have often seen five hundred .Swans 
perching o]i its boughs ; these swans were remarkable for destroying all the 
snipes in the country— they flew faster than any snipe I ever saw, and you may 
imagine a small bircl could make but a feeble resistance in the talons of a swan. 
I hope, my Lords, you will pardon my wandering a little from the present subject," 
&c.— Ed.] 

Line 17. — ["One night after nine o'clock, a party of Soldiers saw a light in a 
house by the road-side— they went and ordered it to be e.xtinguished immediately: 
the people of the house begged that the light might be suffered to remain 
because there was a child belonging to the family in convulsio.i fits, who must 
expire for want of help if the people were to be without tire and candle ; but this 
request HAD .\0 effect.'' Lord Moira's Speech in the House of Lords, Noveiabcr 22, 
1797. This statement was, however, satisfactorily disproved. The incident 
forms a feature in the accompanying engraving. Notwithstanding official 
denials, it has long been admitted that the conduct of the Soldiery in Ireland 
was simply infamous. Billeting on Catholics and reputed malcontents of the 
better class appears to have been invariably as an unlimited licence for robbery, 
devastation, ravishment, and, in case of resistance, murder. Sir Ralph Aber- 
croraby, on assuming the command of the army in Ireland, declared, in general 
orders, that their habits and discipline were such as to render them " formidable 
to everybody but the enemy ". The just severity of this phrase was confirmed 
by the subsequent experience of Lord Cornwallis. — Ed.] 

Line 19.— [Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh, distinguished by his 
.scientific researches, married the daughter and sole heiress of Jas. Evelyn, Esq. 
of Felbridge, Surrey, by whom he had an only daughter, Julia, who became, in 
1810, the wife of the Earl of Liverpool. Sir George, on the decease of his father- 
in-law in 1793, as.snmed the additional surname" of Evelyn. He died in 1804, 
having been five times returned to Parliament for the county of Warwick. — Ed.] 

6 



82 POETRY OF 

Line 20.— [Sir John Macphevson, Bart, was Bl.P. for Horsham, aiul for a short 
period Governor-General of India. — Ed.] 

Line 21.— [Col. Bastard was M.P. for Devon. He was returned with BIr. 
Rolle, the hero of " The lioUiad," on the Pitt interest.— Ed.] 

Line 31.— [Sir William Pulteney was M.P. for Shrewsbury, and no Member in 
the House was more looked up to. He was the second son of Sir James John- 
stone, Bart., of Westerhall, and brother of Governor Johnstone. He married 
the cousin of Lt.-ften. Henry Pulteney, surviving brother of William Pulteney, 
Earl of Bath, assuming the name of Pulteney. The General left immense 
wealth, "the fruits of his brother's virtues ! " as Horace Walpole sarcastically 
phrases it. The greater part of it he bequeathed to the said cousin. Sir Wil- 
liam Johnstone Pulteney died in 1805. His daughter was created Countess of 
Bath.— Ed.] 

Line 38. — [Of M'IMahon it is said in T. Raikes'S Journal (November, 1836):— 
" George IV. never had any private friends : he selected his confidants from his 
minions. M'Maho.n was an Irishman of low birth and obsequious manners: 
he was a little man, his face red, coveied with pimples ; always dressed in the 
blue and buff unifoim, with his hat on one side, copying rhe air of his master, 
to whom he was a prodigious foil, and ready to execute any commissions, which 
in those days were somewhat complicated." He was private secretary and 
keeper of the privy purse to King George IV. when Prince Regent, was sworn 
of the Privy Council, and created a Baronet, 7th August, 1817, with remainder, 
in default of male issue, to his brother. Sir John died 12th September, 1817, 
the title devolving on his brother Thomas, a distinguished military officer, who 
was Adjutant-General of Her Majesty's forces in India, Lieut. -Gov. of Ports- 
mouth, Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, &c. 

Sir John M'Mahon left a lai-ge personal property, amounting to £90,000. 
One of his bequests is thus worded : " To Thomas Marrable, a dear and 
esteemed friend, £2000 ; and with my last prayers for the gloiy and happiness 
of the best-hearted man in the world, the Prin'CE Regent, I bequeath him the 
said Thomas Marrable, an invaluable servant". The latter was a member of 
the household of King George IV., and one of his confidential agents. A fvdl- 
length portrait of him as one of the procession is given in Sir G. Nayler's history 
of the coronation of that monarch. 

Among Gillray's Caricatures is an amusing one, engraved but not designed by 
him, published in 1804, representing the Heir-Apparent, mounted on a tall horse, 
with the much smaller person of l\ri\Lahon consequentially riding on a diminu- 
tive steed at his side, passing the gates of Carlton House. The quotation from 
Burns engraved on it suggests that the Prince might still prove a wortliy occu- 
pant of the throne.— Ed.] 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 83 



No. XII. 

Jan. 29, 1798. 
The following Ode* was dropped into the letterbox in 
our Publisher's window. From its title — " A Bit op an 
Ode to Me. Fox " — we were led to imagine there was 
some mistake in the business, and that it was meant 
to have been conveyed to Mr. Wright's neighbour, Mr. 
Debrett, whom we recollected to have been the Publisher 
of the " Half of a Letter" to the same gentleman, which 
occasioned so much noise (of horse-laughing) in the world. 
Our politics certainly do not entitle us to the honourable 
distinction of being made the channel for communicating 
such a production to the public. But, for our parts, as 
we are "not at war with genius," on whatever side we 
find it, we are happy to give this Poem the earliest place 
in our Paper ; and shall be equally ready to pay the same 
attention to any future favours of the same kind, and 
from the same quarter. 

The Poem is a free translation, or rather, perhaps, 
imitation, of the twentieth Ode of the second Book of 
HoEACE. We have taken the liberty to subjoin the pas- 
sages of which the parallel is the most striking. 
A BIT OF AN ODE TO ME. FOX.* 
I. 
On ^ grey goose quills sublime I'll soar 
To metaphors unreach'd before, 
That scare the vulgar reader : 

[* As if written by Egbert Adair, who had previously indited 
" Half a Letter to Mr. Fox".] 



84 POETRY OF 

With style well form'd from Bubke's best books — 
From rules of grammar (e'en Hobne Tookb's) 
A bold and free Seceder. 

II. 
I ^ whom, dear Fox, you condescend 
To call your "Honourable Friend," 

Shall live for everlasting : 
That ^ Stygian Gallery I'll quit, 
Where printers crowd me, as I sit 

Half-dead with rage and fasting. 

III. 
I * feel ! the growing down descends. 
Like goose-skin, to my fingers' ends — 

Each nail becomes a feather : 
My cropp'd head ^ waves with sudden plumes, 
Which erst (like Bedfobd's, or his groom's) 

Unpowder'd, braved the weather. * 

IV. 

I mount, I mount into the sky, 

" Sweet " bird," to ' Petersburg I'll fly ; 

Or, if you bid^ to Paris ; 
Fresh missions of the Fox and Goose 
Successful Treaties may produce ; 

Though Pitt in all miscarries. 

V. 

Scotch,^ English, Irish Whigs shall read 
The Pamphlets, Letters, Odes I breed, 
Charm'd with each bright endeavour : 

[ * Mr. Pitt's Tax i;pon Hair-powder proved a failure ; 
many of the public declining its use. Those who continued it 
were called " gidnea-pigs," the tax being a guinea per head.— Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 85 

Alarmists ^ tremble at my strain, 
E'en " Pitt, made candid by champaign, 
Shall hail Adair " the clever '\ 

VI. 

Though criticism assail my name, 
And luckless blunders blot my fame," 

! ^^ make no needless bustle ; 
As vain and idle it would be 
To waste one pitying thought on me, 

As to ^^ "unPLUMB a Eussell ".* 

•^ Non nsitata nee tenui ferar 

Penna biformis per liquidum sethera 

Vates. 
^ Non ego, quern vocas 

Dilecte, Maecenas, obibo, 
3 Nee Stygia cohibebor mida. 
* Jamjam residunt cruiibus asperae 

Pelles, et album mutor in alitem 
^ Siiperne, naseiinturqiie leves 

Per digitos hi;merosqiie plumse. 

Visam gementis littora Bosphori, 

Syrtesque Gaetulas,® canorus 

Ales,'' Hyperboreosque cg-mpos. 
^ Me Colclius, et qui ^ dissiniulat metum 

* * * me peritus 

Discet Iber Rhodanique i" potor. 

Absint ^^ inani funere neniae, 
^- Luctusque turpes et querimoniae. 
^^ sepulchri 

Mitte supervacuous honores. 

[' For an explanation of tliis allusion, see Note at p. 74. — Ed.] 



86 POETRY OP 

[LYEICS OF HORACE, BOOK II., ODE XX. 

TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM 

Borne on no weak or vulgar wing, 
Upward through air, two-form'd, I'll spring ; 
Nor longer grovel here, but soar 
AVhere Envy shall pursue no more. 
Not I, from humble lineage sprung, 
Not I, dear Patron, whom thy tongue 
Summons to fame, will fear to die, 
Or bound by Styx's fetters lie. 

A rougher skin my legs assume ; 
My upward limbs the cygnet's plume 
Invests ; my shoulders, fingers feel 
The feathery softness o'er them steal. 

Fleeter than Icarus now I'll haste, 
A tuneful swan, to Libya's waste. 
And heaving sands, where Bospor's wave 
Tosses, or Arctic tempests rave. 
Me Colchis, Dacia me shall learn, 
\Mio hides her fear of Marsian stern ; 
Me Scythia's hordes, the well-trained son 
Of Spain, and he who quaffs the Rhone. 

From my raock bier be far away 
The loud lament, the funeral lay ; 
And, tribute to my fancied doom. 
Far the vain honours of the tomb ! — Ed.] 

[The charge of Fox's having sent Adair to St. Petersburg, to counteract 
the measures of Pitt's government, first broached in Mr. Burke's "Letter on 
the Conduct of the Minority," has been vigorously contradicted, yet so late as 
April, 1854, it was alluded to as a fact by Lord llalmesbury in the House of 
Peers. It was, however, on this occasion again authoritatively denied by LORD 
Campbell, who took occasion to observe that Siu Robert Adair was "now in 
his 90th year, and for many years had served his country with great assiduity 
and fidelity. He had been sent by successive ministers [Mr. Fox, Lord Grey, 
Mr. Canning (who assisted in libelling him so often in the pages of the present 
work), Lord AVellesley, Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Wellington] to Vienna, 
to Constantinople, to Brussels, and to Berlin, and had represented the Crown 
of England upon some occasions of very gi-eat importance, in which he had uni- 
formly acquitted himself to the satisfaction of the Government and for the 
benefit of his country. He lielieved a more honourable man had not lived in 
this country at any time." 

The following denial by Sir Robert Adair himself is copied from his auto- 
graph statement, prefixed to the Life of U'ilbcrj'orce, published in 1S3S : — " This 
idle story is here accredited by Mr. Wilberforce, and inserted by his sons, 
without due examination. It was grounded on a journey I made to Vienna and 
St. Petersburg in 1791. Doctor Prettyman [sic], Bishop of Winchester, in a 
■work entitled The Life of the Rigid Hon. ]Villi(tin Pitt, published by him in 1823, 
brought forward the fact of my having gone upon this journey as a criminal 
charge against Mr. Fox, who, as he pretends, sent me upon it with the intent 
of counteracting some negociations then carrying on between Great Britain and 
Russia at St. Petersburg. I answered his accusation, I trust successfully, in 
two letters published by Longman & Co. [Two Letters from Mr. Adair to the 
Bp. of Winchester, in ansicer to the charge of a High Treasonable Misdemeanour 
brought by his Lordshij} against Mr. Fox and himself in his Life of the Mt. Hon. W. 
Pitt, 8vo., 1821], and explained the circvimstances which induced me in my 
travels in 1791 to visit the two capitals above mentioned.— Robert Adair: 
1838." 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 87 

The " Mission " was, however, firmly believed in, and Pitt was urged, but 
in vain, by the Duke of Richmond and others of the Government, to arrest Fox 
for high treason. 

The following extract from the Poliiical Memoranda of Francis, fifth Duke of 
Leeds, noio first, priatetl from the Originals in the British Museum; edited Tjy Oscar 
Browning , for the Camden Societi/, 1884, is an illustration of the rumours current 
at the time, and many years after. 

" Saty. 24 Novr. 1792. Lord St. Helens dined with me. After the Ladies 
were gone upstairs we conversed for some time on Foreign affairs. . . . Speak- 
ing of the Russian business of last year he reprobated in the .strongest terms 
the conduct of FOX in sending an agent. Mr. Adair, to Petersburg to counteract 
the negociations of this Court at that of Russia. He told me he knew for 
certain that Mr. Adair had shewn to some English merchants at Petersburg 
the Empress' Picture set in diamonds which had been given to him. That it 
was not one of the sort usually given, but of much greater value, being set 
round with large Brilliants, and the whole Picture covered with a Table 
Diamond instead of Chrystal. That this was a present seldom made but on 
some very particular occasion or to some great favorite (I remember to have 
seen such a one in the possession of P. Orlow). Ld. St. H. thought it must 
have been worth six or seven thousand pounds, and of too much value probably 
to have been meaht for jSIr. Adair. The conclusion we both very naturally 
drew from this circumstance was not very favorable to Mr. Fox." 

The following additional particulars relating to the connection between 
Fox and Adair may not be thought out of place here. They are extracted 
from the highly interesting and important Crottr Papers, being the Correspondence 
and Diaries, 1809-18a0, of the Rt. Hon. J. W. Ckoker, M.P., Edited by Louis J. 
Jennings, M.P., 3 vols., 8vo., 1SS4. 

The first is in these terms: "When Adair, whose father was a surgeon, 
went as Fox's Ambassador to Russia, Lord Wiiitworth, then the King's 
Minister, made a good .joke, which tended not a little to lower Adair, and 
defeat his object." 'Est-ce un homme tri'S considerable, ce M. d'Adair?' 
asked the Empress. 'Pas trop, Madame,' replied Lord Whitworth, 'quoique 
son pbre etait grand seigneur [saigneur].' The other is taken from a very long 
statement on various matters, made by K. George IV., when Prince of Wales, 
to Croker personally. Adair's wife, the Prince said, was a Frenchwoman with 
whom Andreossi, when here as Buonaparte's Minister,intrigued. The Duchess 
OF Devonshire told him— the Prince of Wales— that Mrs. Adair had offered 
her a bribe of £10,000 down, and as much more whenever she might want it, 
if she would communicate the Cabinet secrets, with which the French thought 
she could not fail to be acquainted, through her intimacy with all the leaders 
of the Government. This caused a breach between Fox and Adair. But the 
former could only tell Adair that an obstacle— which he could neither reveal 
nor overcome, but which did not affect or alter Fox's personal regard for him 
— prevented his appointment to be Fox's Under-Secretary of State.— C'}■o^•er 
Papers, i. 293.— Ed.] 




POETRY OF 



No. XIII. 

Feb. 5, 1798. 
ACME AND SEPTIMIUS; OE, THE HAPPY UNION 

CELEBRATED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN. 

Fox, ^ with TooKE to grace his side, 

Thus address'd his blooming bride — 

" Sweet ! should I e'er, in power or place. 

Another Citizen embrace ; 

Should e'er my eyes delight to look 

On aught alive save John Horne Tooke, 

Doom me to ridicule and ruin, 

In the coarse hug^ of Indian Bruin ! " 

He spoke ; ^ and to the left and right, 

Norfolk hiccupp'd with delight. 
Tooke, ^ his bald head gently moving, 

On the sweet patriot's drunken eyes 

His wine-empurpled lips applies, 
And thus returns in accents loving : 
" So, my dear^ Charley, may success 
At length my ardent wishes bless, 
And lead, through discord's low'ring storm. 
To one grand radical Eeform ! 
As, from this hour I love thee more 
Than e'er I hated thee before ! " 

He opoke, and to the left and right, 

Norfolk hiccupp'd with delight. 
"With this good omen they proceed ; ^ 
Fond toasts their mutual passion feed ; 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 89 

In Fox's breast Hoene Tooke prevails 
Before '^ rich Ireland and South Wales ; * 
And Fox (unread each other book), 
Is Law and Gospel to Hobne Tooke. 

"When were such kindred souls united ? 

Or wedded pair so much delighted ? 

■^ Acmen Septiinius snos amores 
Tenens in greinio, mea, inqiiit, Acme, 
Ni te perdite auio, &c. 

^ Caesio veniani obvius Leoni. 

^ Hoc ut dixit, Amor sinistram, nt ante 
Dextram, sternuit approbationem. 

* At Acme leviter caput reflectens, 
Et dnlcis pueri ebrios ocellos 
Illo pui'pnreo ore suaviata, 
Sic, inqnit, mea vita,^ Septimille, &e. 

^ Nunc ab auspicio bono profecti 
Mutuis animis amant, amantur. 
Unam Septimius mise]lus Acmen 
Mavult quam ^ Sja-ias Britanniasque. * 

* I.e., The Clerkship of the Pells in Ireland, and Auditorship 
of South Wales. 

[ACME AND SEPTIMIUS. FROM CATULLUS. 
Septimris said, and fondlj' prest 
The doating Acme to his breast : — 
" My Acme, if I prize not thee 
With love as warm as love can be, 
With passion spurning any fears 
Of growing faint in length of years, 
Alone may I defenceless stand 
To meet, on Lybia's desert sand, 
Or under India's torrid sky, 
The tawny lion's glaring eye ! " 
Love, before who utter'd still 
On the left-hand omens ill. 
As he ceased his faith to plight 
Laugli'd propitious on the right. 
Then Acme gently bent her head, 
Kiss'd with those lips of cherry red 
The eyes of the delightful boy, 
That swam with glistening floods of joy ; 
And whisper'd as she closely prest — 
"Septimius, soul of acme's breast. 
Let all our lives and feelings own 
One lord, one sovereign, Love alone ! 
I yield to love, and yield to thee. 
For thou and love are one to me. 



90 POETEY OF 

Though fond thy fervent heart may beat, 
My feelings glow with greater heat, 
And madder flames my bosom melt 
Than all that thon hast ever felt." — Ed.] 

[The following account of the celebration of Fox's Birth-day, printed in the 
Anti-Jacobin, has not hitherto appeared in the editions of the Poetry. The Song 
by Mr. Fox refers to the Subscription raised, after a meeting at the Crown and 
Anchor,_in the sumwer of 1793, for relieving him la his then present need, and 
purchasing an Annuity for him. A Caricature by Gillray on this meeting 
was published on the l-2th June, 1793. 

MR. FOX'S BIRTH-DAY. 

The public, distracted with the various accounts of the celebration of Mr» 
Fox's Birth-day, naturally turn to us for an authentic detail of that important 
event — from a recollection of the correct and impartial statement we gave in a 
former Number, of what passed at a Meeting of the Fiuends of Freedom 
[page 32]. 

To justify their confidence, we have had recourse to the Morning Post and 
Morning Chronicle (the Courier being too stupid for our purpose), whose state- 
ments we have carefully read, and corrected from the information of several 
gentlemen who were present. We are thus enabled to lay before our readers a 
genuine narrative of the whole proceeding, whicli we defy the tongue of Slander 
to controvert in any material point. 

As Mr. Fox's reputation had been for some time on the decline, it was 
thought necessary by the party (who are in great want of a Head) to make as 
respectable an appearance as possible on the present occasion. It was therefore 
suggested (at a previous meeting of confidential friends) that if the unfortunate 
shyness which subsisted between the IVhig-Club and the Corrciponding Society 
could be opportunely removed by a few unimportant concessions on the part of 
the former, such a number of citizens might be readily procured from that 
respectable body as would serve to give the day an eclat it had not experienced 
since the fatal schism of 1792. 

This hint, so reasonable in itself, was immediately adopted, and Sir Francis 
BuRDETT, who was well acquainted with their haunts, was ordered into the 
neighbourhood of Smithfleld with a competent nmnber of tickets. He was on 
the point of setting out, when the Editor of the Morning Post observed, that 
forgery * was so common at present, that he hardly thought it prudent to admit 
all who might come with a bit of scribbled paper : on this it was determined to 
distribute the price of admission amongst a certain number of people to be 
selected by the Envoy : — these, it was rightly concluded, would not fail to 
appear, from motives of vanity, as they could have no other possible chance of 
dining with the Premier Dupe, we would say Duke, in England. It now re- 
mained to determine the sum : this, after a short discussion, was fixed at Eight 
Shillings and Sixpence per head, " which," said the Editor of the Morning Post, 
"will shew we cannot be persons of mean rank, since we can afi^ord, in hard 
times, to give so much for a dinner" ;t and Citizen Bosville was desired to 
advance the money upon the credit of the Whig Fund. 

Previous to the meeting, the chairman dispatched a note to Sir William 
Addington, i-equesting that the Crown and Anchor might be exempted from 
the visitation of his runners during the morning of the 24th [Jan., 1798]. To 
this Sir AViLLiAM assented, on condition that it should be recommended to the 

[*0n 7th Feb., 1796, a. forgal French newspaper called V Eclair, containing 
false intelligence, .vas circulated in London for stock-jobbing purposes. On 3rd 
July a verdict of £100 was given against D. Stuart, proprietor of The Morning 
Post, for sending the above paper to the proprietors of Tlie Telegraph, by which 
it was discredited ; and on the following day, a verdict of £1500 was given 
against l\Ir. Dickinson, for falsely accusing Mr. Goldsmid, the money-broker, of 
forging the above. It announced a peace between Austria and France. — ED.] 

t Morning Post, Jan. 25. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 91 

gentlemen, to leave their pocket-books and watches at home, that there might 
be as little temiitation as possible to break the peace. Thvis everything was 
arrangeil with a precaution that seemed to set accident at defiance. 

Before four o'clock the passage to the large room was crammed, when, 
on a hint that dinner was on the point of being served, one of the head waiters 
advanced to the great door, and opened a wicket for the admission of the com- 
pany, as fast as they paid down their money. Two or three had already passed 
in good order, when Mr. John Nicholls advanced, and instead of 8s. 6d., produced 
to the astonished receiver, seventeen of his pui.nted speeches, which, valuing 
them at sixpence a-piece, he contended woiild make up the sum required. 
The.se "assets," however, were absolutely rejected ; and a violent dispute was 
on the point of commencing, when Sir Christopher Hawkins stept forward, 
and whispering a few words, which we did not hear, obtained leave for his 
friend to pass. The Speeches were therefore deposited, and Mr. Nicholls was 
already got within the wicket, when the man suddenly pulled him back by the 
coat, and the dispute recommenced with more violence than ever. Upon inquiry 
into the cause of this new tumult, we found that a wag (whom we afterwards 
discovered to be Mr. Jekvll) had played the member for Tregony a trick; 
having taken an opportunity, in the crowd, of extracting the f/enuine speeches 
from the pocket of the Honourable Member, and replacing them by the same 
number of the s2)uriniis ones, printed for Mr. Wright, the publisher of this 
Paper. These the waiter very properly refused to receive, alleging, and indeed 
truly, that instead of six pence a-piece, the whole seventeen were not worth six 
farthings. 

This altercation continued so long, that the company grew impatient ; and 
Mr. Brvan Edwards, a little ashamed of his friend, who still continued obsti- 
nate, offered to furnish his quota. Harmony now seemed to be restored, when 
all at once a cry of astonishment broke forth that beggars all description. On 
puttiug his hand into his pocket for the price of admission, Mr. E. suddenly 
turned" pale, and exclaimed, " By G — , gentlemen, some of you have picked my 
pockets!" A hundred voices instantly repeated the same cry, and a dreadful 
scene of confusion and uproar took place. 

Ardebant cuncta et fracta compage ruebant. 

What the consequence would have l)een, it is impossible to say, had not the 
waiter, with an air of authority, commanded the doors to be shut at each end of 
the passage, and every man to exhibit the contents of his pocket. A faint cry of 
No ! No ! was over-ruled ; and Sir Francis Burdett produced an old Red Cap 
from the bosom of his shirt, which he put into the hands of the Duke of Bedford, 
who was appointed collector-general fcj/ acclaiuatinn. With this his Grace went, 
from man to man, executing his duty with the utmost fairness and impartiality ; 
and when he had finished, poured out the contents of the cap before them all. 
These, it must be confessed, were a little heterogeneous, consisting, besides a 
large sum of money, of a brass knocker i this was immediately claimed by the 
landlord), a pewter pot squeezed together, a pair of pattens, a pint decanter, a 
duck ready trussed for dressing, a great quantity of pouatoes, and a vinegar 
cruet. What was most extraordinary was, that though, as his Grace afterwards 
declared, the money was found in very unequal portions, yet the total sum, 
which was £2'22, 5s. 6d., being divided among the company, amounting to 523 
persons, produced 8s. 6d. for each individual,"with the exception of the Memtier 
for Trcjow/, who brought nothing but his speech, and Capt. IMORRIS, who pays 
for everything with a Song. 

Nothing material occurred during the Dinner, which was allowed to be ex- 
cellent of its kind, and where no such dish as Cow-heel (as maliciously reported 
in The True Briton) made its appearance. 

As soon as the cloth was removed, the Duke of Norfolk took the Chair 
amidst repeated plaudits, ■ and addressed tlie Company in these words : 

"Three virtuous Men, Citizens, have stood up in defence of Liberty — Maxi- 
milian Robespierre, Collot D'Herbois, and Charles James Fox :— The first 
is guillotined ; tlie second transported to Cayenne; and the third" Here 

' Mofiiimj Chronicle, Jan. 25. 



92 POETRY OF 

all eyes were immediately upon Mr. Fox, who now entered the room, supported 
by Citizens John Gale Jones and John IIorne Tooke — "As the Right 
Hon. Gentleman (resumed the Duke, a little peevishly) has mistaken his cue, 
and appeared sooner than lie ought, I shall spare his modesty tlie panegyric I 
was preparing, and shortly conclude with proposing the health of Charles 
James Fox." — This was drank with three times three. 

As soon as the clamour had subsided, Mr. Fox arose and said, "That 
language, at least any which he could boast, was inadequate to the exquisite 
feelings of gratitude which at once delighted and oppressed him, at the sight 
of so numerous and so respectable a body of free and independent Citizens, 
met for a i)urpose which woukl make this the proudest and the happiest day of 
his life". Having dwelt a little on this idea, Mr. Fox observed, "that he would 
not interrupt the conviviality of the ilay by a long Speech : he knew there were 
several present who came to hear him make a long Speech, but he would not 
make a long Speech — to what purpose should he do it? — what could he add to 
the Speech lately delivered by him, and so faithfully recorded in the Anti- 
Jacobin, a contemptible Publication, hut one to which the praise of Accuracy 
could not be denied. The new and extraordinary circumstances of the times 
called for new and extraordinary measures: he would, therefore, if they pleased, 
compress what he had to say into a Snng — (lovd applauses)— One word only. — 
He owed both the burden and the uha of this Song to the Morning Chronicle. He 
had yesterday, the 23rd, found there A begging Addre.ss to tifie Nation, with 
Date Obolum Belisario prefixed to it as a Motto. This had pleased him 
much, and this morning at breakfast he had endeavoured to adapt it, mutatis 
mutandis, to his own circumstances : he should now have the honour of 
giving it." 

Song by Mr. Fox. 

To the Tune of 

" Good People of England, and all who love Ale." 

Good People of England, of every degree, 
Lords, Commoners, listen, O ! listen to me ; 
Republicans, Royalists, all — mark my ditty — 
You'll find I've a number of claims on your pity — 

Date Obolum Belisario. 

Ye who heard me assert that Lord North, now so mourn'd, 
■Was a beast to be shunn'd, was a fool to be scorn'd, 
Yet who saw me, with real or fancied alarms, 
Take the/ool to my councils, the beast to my arms. 

Date Obolum Belisario. 

Ye who heard me declare the Subscribers of Reeves 
Were a scoundrel collection of cut-throats and thieves. 
Yet who saw me immediately after repair. 
And subscribe at the Long-Uoom in Hanover Square, 

Date Obolum Belisario. 

Ye who heard — when Invasion was close at our door. 
And Parker and Liberty rul'd at the Nore — 
Ye who heard— no ; I mean, who did not hear me speak, 
While Sheridan,* damn him ! affected to squeak, 

Date Obolum Belisario. 

Ye who heard me repeat that Resistance, at length, 
Was rednc'd, by Pitt's Bill, to a question of Strength, 
And ih2i,t prudence alone 

y^c know not how far Mr. Fox might have proceeded, had he not been inter- 
rupted by a jangling of bells from the Side-table which immediately drew all 
eyes that way. This proceeded from Capt. Morris, who had fallen asleep 

* This appears to allude to Mr. Sheridan's conduct during the Mutiny. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 93 

during- Mr. Fox's Sons;, and was now nodding on his chnir, with a large paper 
Cap on his head, ornamented with gilt tassels and )>ells, which one of the 
company had dexterously whipped on unperceived. The first motion was that 
of indignation ; but the stupid stare of the unconscious Captain, who half 
opened Iiis eyes at every sound of the bells as liis head rose or fell, and im- 
mediately closed them again, somno vinnque gravatu>), had such a powerful effect 
on the risible faculties of the Company, that they broke, as if by consent, into 
the most violent and convulsive fits of laughter ; Mr. Fox himself not being 
exempt from the general contagion. 

As soon as the Captain was made sensible of the cause of this uproar, he 
attempted to pull ofi: the Cap, but was prevented Ity a Citizen from the Cor- 
responding Soclcltj, who maintained that the Company had a right to be amused 
by the Captain in what m.mner they pleased ; and that, as he seemed to amuse 
them more effectually in that state, than in any other, he insisted, for one, on his 
continuing to wear the Cap. This was universally agreed to, with the exception 
of the Duke of Nokfolk. The Captain was therefore led to the upper table, 
with all his ".iangling honours loud upon him!" Here, as soon as he was 
seated, his Noble Friend called upon him for a Song. 

The Captain .sang the " Plempo " in his best manner. 

This was received with great applause ; and then the Duke gave " The 
Defenders — of Ireland"— (Wo'te times three). 

Captain Morris then began 

"And all the Books of Moses " ; — 
but was interrupted, before he had finished the first line, by Mr. Tierney, who 
declared he would not sit there and hear anything like ridicule on the Bible.* — 
{Mviii coughing and scraping.) — Mr. Erskine took God to witness, that he thought 
the Cai)tain meant no harm ;— and a gentleman from Cambridge, whose name 
■we c<iuld not learn, said, with great naivetd, that it was no more than was done 
every day by his acquaintance." Mr. Tierney, however, persisted in his opposi- 
tion to the Song, and Captain Morris was obliged to substitute "Jenny Sutton" 
in the place of it 

But the good humour of the company was already broken in upon, and Mr. 
Tierney soon after left the room (to which he did not T'eturn) with greater marks 
of dis])leasure in his face than we ever remember to have seen there. 

The Duke now gave Radical Rekokm {three times three, fotlou-ed by contimmd 
shouts ofapptauae). 

A Counsellor JACKSON attempted to sing " Paddy Whack," but was soon 
silenced, on account of his stupid perversion of the words, and his bad voice. 

Citizen Gale Jones then rose and said — that he was no Orator, though he 
got his living by oratory, being Chairman of a Debating Society. He had also 
written a book— which he was told had some merit. He did not rise to recom- 
mend it, but he thought it right to hint, that those who wished for Constitu- 
tional information might be supplied witli it at the Bar ; the price was trifiing 
— Eighteen-pence was nothing to the majority of the Company ; — to himself, 
indeed — (here JNIr. Horne Tooke called out Order ! Order ! with some marks of 
impatience) — He begged pardon, he would say no more — there was no one whom 
he valued like IMr. Tooke, there was no one indeed to whom he was under such 
obligations ; the very shoes he had on were chai-ged by Citizen Hardy to Mr. 
TooKE'S account — Mr. ToOKE was also a great friend to a Radical Reform — he 
loved a Radical Reform himself ; the Poor must always love Radical Reforms — 
he should therefore beg leave to propose the health of Mr. John Horne Tooke. 
—{Three times three.) 

Mr. TooKE rose, and spoke nearly as follows: "You all know, Citizens, in 
what detestation I once held the Man whose Birth-flay we are now met to 
commemorate. You cannot yet have forgot the 'Two Pair of Portraits' I 
formerly published, nor the glaring light in which I hung up him and his 
father to the execration of an indignant posterity. You must also be apprized 
of the charges of Corruption, Insurrection, and Murder (m uc]i hissing and applause, 

■ This is not the first time that we have heard of Mr. Tierney's discourage- 
ment of impiety. However we may disapprove of this gentleman's political 
principles, we are not insensible to the m.erit of such conduct. 



94 POETRY OF 

the latter prcdnrnmnnt) which I brought against hiin, justly, as I must still think, 
at a former Election for Westminster. How happens it then, you will say, that I 
now come forward to do liini linniiur? I will tell you. At the last Election for 
Westminster, I had still my sus)iicions of his sincerity ; he appeared too anxious 
to preserve measures witli tlie spruce and powdered Aristocrats who usually 
attended him to the Hustings ; nor was it till the fourth or fifth day before the 
close of the Poll, that those suspicions were removed. Aware that he was 
losing ground among the People, he determined to make one great effort to 
re-establish his popTnlarity. He therefore came foiward, and addressed the 
free and independent Electors in front of the Hustings, in a Speech, of which 
the remembrance yet warms my heart. From that moment, I marked him as 
my own ! Retractation was impossible ; and the panegyric he lately delivered 
on a Radical Reform, in a House which I despise too much to nanie, was the 
natural and inevitalde consequence of that day's declaration. You may remem- 
ber, that when I addressed my Friends, I only said, 'Gentlemen, Mr. Fox has 
spfiken my sentiments; he has even gone beyond them — but I thank him'. — 
What I then said I now repeat, with regard to his Speech on a late occasion — 

' I AM MOST PEUFECTLY .SATI.SFIED WITH HIS CONDUCT ; NOR DO I WISH TO 
ADVANCE ONE STEP IN THE CAUSE OF REFORM, BEYOND WHAT MR. FOX HAS 
PLEDGED HIMSELF TO GO ! ! !' "* 

Mr. TooKE then begged leave to propose Sir. Fox's health for the second 
time, and sat down amidst a thunder of applause. + 

The Duke of Norfolk observed to the Company, that as they had drunk the 
health of a ilan dear to the People, he would now call upon them to drink the 
health of their Sovereign! — here a hiccup interrupted his Grace, and a most vio- 
lent cry of " No Sovereign ! no Sovereign ! " resounded through the room, and con- 
tinued for several minutes, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of the Duke to 
be heard. Order was, however, restored at length, when his Grace gently chid 
the Company for taking advantage of a slight infirmity of nature, ti:> impute a 
design to him which was wholly foreign from his heart — (/nud appltuisc). He 
augured well, however, of their patriotism, and would now afford them an op- 
portunity of repairing the injury they had done him, by giving the Toast as he 
intended— " The Health of our Sovereign— the Majesty of the People ".§ 
—{Loud and incessant shouts of applause.) 

A disgusting scene of uproar and confusion followed, which we shall not 
attempt to detail. The Chairman sank under the table in a state of stupefaction, 
and the rest of the Company, maddened alike with noise and wine, committed 
a thotisand outrages, till they were literally turned into the streets by the 
Waiters. As many of them as could speak were conducted home by the watch- 
men ; others were conveyed " in silent majesty" to the Round-house ; and not 
a few of them slept out the remainder of the night upon the steps of tlie neigh- 
bouring houses. The Reporters of the Jacobin Papers were sought out, and 
conveyed home by the pressmen, devils, &c., and one poor youth, whom we after- 
wards found to be a Writer in the Morning Chronicle (hired for the day by The 
True Briton) || had his pockets picked of a clean white Handkerchief and a 
Notebook, after being severely beaten for deserting his former' Employers. 

* Morning Post, Jan. 25. t Morning Chronicle, Jan. 25. 

t Morning Chronicle, Morning Post, Morning Hercdd, &c. 

§ The Company seem to have recollected (had his Grace forgotten?) that the 
Duke of Norfolk has another Sovereign, to whom he has recently, more 
than once, sworn Allegiance ; and under whom he now holds the Lieutenancy 
of the West Riding of the County of York, and the Command of a Regiment 
of Militia. 

II See The True Briton, of Thursday, Jan. 25. 




TkLOYAL TOAST. 






THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 95 



No. XIV. 

Feb. 12, 1798. 
It has been our invariable custom to suppress such of 
our correspondents' favours as conveyed any compliments 
to ourselves; and we have deviated from it in the present 
instance, not so much out of respect to the uncommon 
excellence of the Poem before us, as because it agrees so 
intimately with the general design of our paper — to ex- 
pose the deformity of the French Eevolution, to counter- 
act the detestable arts of those who are seeking to intro- 
duce it here, and above all, to invigorate the exertions of 
our countrymen against every Foe, foreign and domestic, 
by showing them the immense and inexhaustible resources 
they yet possess in British Courage and British Virtue ! 

to 

THE AUTHOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

Foe to thy country's foes ! 'tis thine to claim 
From Britain's genuine sons a British fame — 
Too long French manners our fair isle disgraced ; 
Too long French fashions shamed our native taste. 
Still prone to change, we half-resolved to try 
The proffered charms of Fkench fraternity. 

Fair was her form, and Freedom's honour'd name 
Conceal'd the horrors of her secret shame : 
She claim' d some kindred with that guardian pow'r, 
Long worshipp'd here in Britain's happier hour : 
Virtue and Peace, she said, were in her train, 
The long-lost blessings of Astr-5;a's reign — 
But soon the vizor dropp'd — her haggard face 
Betray'd the Fury lurking in the Grace — 



96 POETRY OF 

The false attendants that behind her press'd, 

In vain disguised, the latent guilt confess'd : 

Peace dropt her snow-white robe, and shudd'ring show'd 

Ambition's mantle reeking fresh with blood ; 

Presumptuous "Folly stood in Eeason's form, 

Pleased with the power to ruin, — not reform ; 

Philosophy, proud phantom, undismay'd, 

With cold regard the ghastly train survey'd ; 

Saw Persecution gnash her iron teeth, 

While Atheists preach'd the eternal sleep of death ; 

Saw Anarchy the social chain unbind. 

And Discord sour the blood of human kind ; 

Then talk'd of Nature's Eights, and Equal Sway ; 

And saw her system safe — and stalk'd away ! 

Foil'd by our Arms, where'er in arms we met, 
With ARTS LIKE these the foe assails us yet. 
Hopeless the fort to storm, or to surprise. 
More secret wiles his envious malice tries ; 
Diseas'd himself, spread wide his own despair, 
Pollutes the fount, and taints the wholesome air. 

While many a Chief, to glory not unknown, 
Alarms each hostile shore, and guards our own, 
'Tis THINE, the latent treachery to proclaim ; 
An humbler warfare, but the cause the same. 
In vain had Pompey crush'd the Pontic host. 
And chas'd the pirate swarm from every coast ; 
The crew that leagu'd their country to o'erthrow ; 
The base confederates of a Gallic * foe ; 

* Conjuravere Gives nobilissimi Patriam incendere — Gallorum 
gentem infestissimam nomini Konaano in bellmxi arcessunt — 
Dux Hostium cmii exercitu supra caput est. — Obat. Caton. ap. 
.Sallust. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 97 

Had not the Civic Consul's watchful eye 
Track'd through the windings of conspiracy, 
Exposed, confounded, shamed, and forced away, 
The "Jacobin Eeformer * of his day ". 

'Tis THINE a subtler mischief to pursue, 
And drag a deeper, darker, plot to view ; 
Whate'er its form, still ready to engage. 
Detect its malice, or resist its rage ; 
Whether it whispers low, or raves aloud, 
In sneers profane, or blasphemies avow'd ; f 
Insults its King, reviles its Country's cause. 
And, 'scaped from Justice, braves the lenient Laws : 
Whate'er the hand in desperate faction bold, 
By native hate inspired, or foreign gold ; 
Traitors absolved, and libellers released. 
The recreant Peer, or renegado Priest ; | 
The Sovereiffn-jjeople's cringing, crafty slave. 
The dashing fool, and instigating knave. 
Each claims thy care ; nor think the labour vain — 
Vermin have sunk the Ship that ruled the Main. 

* Turn Catilina polliceri tabulas novas, proscriptionem locu- 
pletium, Magistrates, Sacerdotia, rapinas, alia omnia qnse 
bellnni atqne lubido Victoruni fert. — Sallust. 

[ f " A Correspondent cautions ns against making a profane 
use of Mr. Wilberforce's appearance on Sunday ; that gentle- 
man would not have been so imgodly as to gallop there witliont 
a sufficient reason — it was the fultilment of some Prophecy ; 
and the horse he rode might be related to the "White Horse of 
the Revelations." — Morning Chronicle, Jan. 11, 1798. — Ed.] 

[J This refers to Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of Norfolk, 
(who gave, at a public dinner, the famous toast of " Our Sove- 
reign's health, the Majesty of the People,") and to John Home 
Tooke, who was a regularly ordained clergyman, ahd had been 
tried for High Treason and acquitted. — Ed.] 

7 



98 POETRY OF 

'Tis THINE, with Truth's fair shield to ward the blow. 
And turn the weapon back upon the foe : 
To trace the skulking fraud, the candid cheat, 
That can retract the falsehood, yet repeat ; 
To wake the listless, slumb'ring as they lie, 
Lapt in th' embrace of soft security ; 
To rouse the cold, re-animate the brave, 
And shew the cautious all they have to save. 

Erect that standard Alfred first unfurl'd, 
Britain's just pride, the wonder of the world ; 
Whose staff is Freedom's spear, whose blazon'd field 
Beams with the Christian Cross, the Eegal Shield ; 
That standard which the Patriot Barons bore, 
Eestored, from Eunimede's resounding shore ; 
Which since consign'd to Williabi's guardian hand, 
Waved in new splendour o'er a grateful land ; 
Which oft in vain by force or fraud assail'd, 
Has stood the shock of ages — and prevail'd. 

Yes ! the bright sun of Britain yet shall shine — 
The clouds are earth-born, but his fire divine ; 
That temperate splendour, and that genial heat, 
Shall still illume, and cherish Empire's Seat ; 
While the red Meteor, whose portentous glare 
Shot plagues infectious through the troubled air ; 
Admired, or fear'd no more, shall melt away. 
Lost in the radiance of his brighter day ! 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 99 

LINES. 

Written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Grown 
and Anchor. 

I'll not sell Uncle Noll, Charles Surface cries ; — 
I'll not sell Charley Fox, John Bull replies : 
Sell him, indeed ! who'll find me such another ? — 
Fox is above all price ; so hold your pother. 

Morning Post, Feb. 6. 
To make our readers some amends for this miserable 
doggrel, we will present them, in our turn, with some 
lines written under a bust, not at the Crotvn and Anchor, 
by an English traveller just returned from Peters- 
burgh. We believe they are more just ; we are certain 
they are more poetical. 

LINES. 

Written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain 
Orator, once i)laced between those of Demosthenes and Cicero. 

I. 

The Grecian Orator of old, 
With scorn rejected Philip's laws. 

Indignant spuru'd at foreign gold. 
And triumph'd in his country's cause. 

II. 

A foe to every wild extreme, 
'Mid civil storms, the Eoman Sage 

Eepress'd Ambition's frantic scheme, / 

And check'd the madding people's rage. 

III. 
Their country's peace, and wealth and fame. 
With patriot zeal their labours sought, 



100 POETRY OF 

And Eome's or Athens' honoured name 
Inspired and govern'd every thought. 

IV. 

Who now, in this presumptuous hour, 
Aspires to share the Athenian's praise ? 

— The advocate of foreign power, 
The ^schines of later days. 

V. 

What chosen name to Tully's join'd. 
Is thus announced to distant chmes ? 

— Behold, to lasting shame consign'd, 
The Catiline of modern times ! * 

[* These lines allude to the Empress Catherine's placing 
in her gallery the bust of Fox between those of Demosthenes 
and Cicero, as a token of gratitude for his exertions in de- 
feating the project of Pitt, wlio, in conjxmction with Prussia 
and Holland, had, in 1791, prepared a powerful armament 
to compel her to give up Ockzakow, which she had seized. 
The Court party delighted in stigmatizing Fox as the modern 
Catiline. " But the part which he took in parliament subse- 
quent to 1793, (says Sir N. W. Wraxall), and the eulogimns 
lavished by him on the French Revolution, soon changed the 
Empress's tone. She caused the bust to be removed ; and 
when reproached with such a change in her conduct, she replied, 
' C'etoit Monsieur Fox de Quatre-vingt-onze que j'ai place dans 
mon cabinet '." — WraxaWs Posthumous Memoirs, vol. 1., pp. 435, 
436. 

" It seems to have escaped general notice, (says Sir James 
Prior in his Life of Burke), that the misfortunes of Poland in 
her final partition may be, in some degree, attributed, however 
imdesignedly on their part, to Mr. Fox and the Opposition, 
in the strong and unusual means made use of to thwart Mr. 
Pitt in the business of Ockzakow. They lay claim, it is true, 
to the merit of having prevented war on that occasion, lint 
if war had then taken place with England for one act of vio- 
lence comparatively trivial, Eussia, in all probability, woiild 
not have ventured upon a second and still greater aggression, 
involving the existence of a nation, with the certainty of a 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 101 

second war. Nothing, after all, might have saved Poland from 
tlie combination then on foot against her ; but it is certain 
that Mr. Pitt, from recent experience, had little encouragement 
to make the attempt." 

It is a curious circumstance that, though the ^jZafe illus- 
trating these Lines was published, according to its inscription, 
on the 17th March, 1792, the five stanzas engraved on it are 
identical with those which appeared in the Anti-Jacobin of 
r2th Feb., 1798, though these were introduced as written "by 
an English Traveller just [sic] returned from Petersburg!! ". 

Assuming the date on the engraving to be correct, we might 
account for the parachronism on the supposition that the author 
of the earlier plate-stanzas availed hiniself of the appearance 
of the Lijics xorittcn under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown 
atid Anchor to reproduce them — six years afterwards— with a few 
verbal alterations, to adapt them to a later period — and with an 
equivocal statement as to the period of their first production. 

The following are the alterations in the reprinted version : — 

Stanza 2 line 3, frantic for lawless. 

,, 3 „ 1, their country's for domestic. 

„ 3 „ 1, and wealth and for external. 

„ 3 „ 3, honoured for sacred. 

„ 4 „ 1, now for then. 

„ 4 ,, 3, advocate for tool confessed. 

„ 4 „ 4, later for modern. 

„ 5 „ 2, thus for now. 

,, 5 „ 4, Catiline for Cataline. 

„ 5 „ 4, modern for later. — Ed.] 




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No. XV. 

Feb. 19, 1798. 
THE PEOGEESS OF MAN.* 

IN FORTY CANTOS, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY : 
CHIEFLY OF A PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCY. 

DEDICATED TO R. P. KNIGHT, ESQ. 

CANTO FIRST. 

Contents. — The Subject proposed. — Doubts and Waverings. 
— Queries not to be answered. — Formation of the stupendous 
Whole. — Cosmogony; or the Creation of the World: — the 
Devil— Man— Various Classes of Being: — Animated Beings 
— Birds— Fish — Beasts — the Influence of the Sexiial Appe- 
tite — on Tigers — on Whales— On Crimpt Cod — on Perch — 
on Shrimps— on Oysters, — Various Stations assigned to dif- 
ferent Animals : — Birds — Bears — Mackerel. — Bears remark- 
able for their fur — Mackerel cried on a Sunday — Birds do 
not graze — nor Fishes fly — nor Beasts live in the Water. — 
Plants equally contented with their lot : — Potatoes — Cabbage 
— Lettuce — Leeks — Cucumbers. — Man only discontented — 
born a Savage ; not choosing to continue so, becomes 
polished — resigns his Liberty — Priest - craft — - King - craft — 
Tyranny of Laws and Institutions. — Savage Life — de- 
scription thereof : — The Savage free — roammg Woods — feeds 
on Hips and Haws — Animal Food — first notion of it from 
seeing a Tiger tearing his prey — wonders if it is good — 
resolves to try — makes a Bow and Arrow — kills a Pig — 
resolves to roast a part of it — lights a fire — Apostrophe to 
fires — Spits and Jacks not yet invented. — Digression. — 
Corinth — Sheffield. — Love, the most natural clesire after 
Food. — Savage Courtship. — Concubinage recommended. — 
Satirical Reflections on Parents and Children — Husbands 

[* Written to ridicule Richard Payne Knight's Progress of 
Civil Society, a Didactic Poem, in Six Books. London, 1796, 
4to.— Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 103 

and Wives — against collateral Consanguinity. — Freedom the 
only Morality, &c. &c. &c. 

Whether some great, supreme o'er-ruling Power 

Stretch'd forth its arm at Natm-e's natal horn*, 

Composed this mighty whole with plastic skill, 

Wielding the jarring elements at will ? 

Or whether, sprung from Chaos' mingling storm, 5 

The mass of matter started into form ? 

Or Chance o'er earth's green lap spontaneous fling 

The fruits of autumn and the flowers of spring ? 

Whether material substance unrefinecl. 

Owns the strong impulse of instructive mind, 10 

Which to one centre points diverging lines, 

Confounds, refracts, invig'rates, and combines? 

Whether the joys of earth, the hopes of heaven, 

By man to God, or God to man, were given? 

If virtue leads to bliss, or vice to woe ? 15 

Who rules above, or who reside below? 

Ver. 3. A modern author of great penetration and judgment 
observes very shrewdly, that "the cosmogony of the world 
has puzzled the philosophers of all ages. What a medlej- of 
opinions have thej' not broached upon the creation of the 
world. Sanconiathon, Manetho, Berosus, and Ocellus Lucanus 
have all attempted it in vain. The latter has these words — 
A)Utrchon ara kai ateleutaion toi)an — which imply, that all things 
have neither beginning nor end." See Goldsmith's Vicar of 
TVakefield : see also Mr. Ivnight's Poem on the Progress of Civil 
Society. 

Ver. 12. The influence of Mind upon Matter, comprehending 
the whole question of the Existence of Mind as independent 
of Matter, or as co-existent with it, and of Matter considered 
as an intelligent and self-dependent Essence, will make the 
subject of a larger Poem in 127 Books, now preparing iinder 
the same auspices. 

Ver. 14. Hee Godwin's Enquirer; Darwin's Zo on omia; Paine; 
Priestley, »&c. &c. ; also all the French Encyclopaedists. 

Ver. 16. Qiucstio sjnnosa et contortala. 



104 POETKY OF 

Vain questions all — shall man presume to know ? 
On all these points, and points obscure a.s these, 
Think they who will, — and think whate'er they please ! 

Let us a plainer, steadier theme pursue — 20 

Mark the grim savage scoop his light canoe ; 
Mark the dark rook, on pendent branches hung, 
With anxious fondness feed her cawing young. — 
Mark the fell leopard through the desert prowl, 
Fish prey on fish, and fowl regale on fowl ; — 25 

How Lybian tigers' chawdrons love assails, 
And warms, 'midst seas of ice, the melting whales ; — 
Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts. 
Shrinks shrivell'd shrimps, but opens oysters' hearts ; — 
Then say, how all these things together tend 30 

To one great truth, prime object, and good end ? 

First — to each living thing, whate'er its kind. 
Some lot, some part, some station is assign'd. 
The feather'd race with pinions skim the air — 
Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear ; 35 

This roams the wood, carniv'rous for his prey ! 
That with soft roe pursues his icaiery way : 



Ver. 26. "Add thereto a tiger's chawdron." — Macbeth. 

Ver. 26, 27. " In softer notes bids Lybian lions roar. 

And warms the whale on Zenibla's frozen shore." 
Progress of Civil Society, Book I. ver. 98. 

Ver. 29. "An oyster may be crossed in love." — Mr. Sheridan's 
Critic. 

Ver. 34. Birds fly. 

Ver. 35. But neither fish, nor beasts — particularly as here 
exemplified. 

Ver. 36. The bear. 

Ver. 37. The mackerel — there are also hard-roed mackerel. 
Sed de his alio loco. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 105 

111 is, slain by hunters, yields his shaggy hide; 
Tli'it, caught by fishers, is on Sandays cried. — 

But each contented with his humble sphere, 40 

Moves unambitious through the circling year ; 
Nor e'er foi'gets the fortune of his race, 
Nor pines to quit, or strives to change his place. 
Ah ! who has seen the mailed lobster rise. 
Clap her broad wings, and soaring claim the skies ? 45 
When did the owl, descending from her bow'r. 
Crop, 'midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flow'r ; 
Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb. 
In the salt wave, and fish-like strive to swim ? 

The same with plants — potatoes 'tatoes breed — 50 
Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed ; 
Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed ; 
Nor e'er did cooling cucumbers presume 
To flow'r like myrtle, or like violets bloom. 
— Man, only, — rash, refined, presumptuous man, 55 

Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. 

Ver. 38. Bear's grease, or fat, is also in great request ; being 
supposed to have a criniparous, or hair-producing quality. 

Ver. 39. There is a special Act of Parliament ^\hich permits 
mackerel to be ci-ied on Sundays. 

Ver. 45 to 49. Every animal contented with the lot which 
it has drawn in life. A tine contrast to man, who is always 
discontented. 

Vtr. 49. Salt wave — wave of the sea — "brinii ivave'\ — Poetae 
passim. 

I'tr. 50. A still stronger contrast, and a greater shame to 
man, is found in plants ; — they too are contented — he restless 
and changing. Alejis agitat mihi, nee placida contenta quiete est. 

Ver. 50. Potatoes 'tatoes breed. Elision for the sake of verse, 
not meant to imply that the root degenerates. — Not sowithnian — 
Mox daturus 
Progeniem vitiosiorem. 



106 



POETEY OF 



Bom the free heir of nature's wide domain, 
To art's strict hmits bounds his narrow'd reign ; 
Eesigns his native rights for meaner things, 
For faith and fetters — laws, and priests, and kings. 60 
fTo he continued.) 

We are sorry to be obliged to break off here. The 
remainder of this admirable and instructive Poem is in 
the press, and will be continued the first opportunity. 

THE EDITOR. 

[The following is the commencement of Knight's poem : — 

Whether pi'imordial motion sprang to life 

From the wild war of elemental strife ; 

In central chains the mass inert confined, 

And sublimated matter into mind : 

Or, whether one great all-pervading soul 

Moves in each part and animates the whole ; 

Unnumbered worlds to one great centre draws, 

And governs all by pre-established laws : 

Whether in fates' eternal fetters bound, 

Mechanic nature goes her endless round : 

Or ever varying, acts but to fulfil 

The sovereign mandates of Almighty will ; — 

Let learned folly seek, or foolish pride, 

Rash in presumptuous ignorance, decide. — Ed.] 
[Eminent as Richard Payne Knight was as a classical scholar anil archaeolo- 
gist, his poetical powers were not highly appreciated by his literary contem- 
poraries, as is amusingly shown in a letter from Horace Walpole, dated 22nd 
March, 1796, to the Rev. W. Mason, in which he declares how much he is 
"offended and disgusted by Mr. Knight's new, insolent, and self-conceited 
poem". He winds up thus : " I send you a parody on two lines of Mr. Knight, 
which will show you that his poem is seen in its true light by a young man of 
allowed parts, Mk. Canning, whom I never saw. The originals are the two 
first lines at the top of page 5 : " — 

"Some fainter irritations seem to feel, 
Which o'er its languid fibres gently steal".— Knight. 
"Cools the crimp'd cod, to pond-perch pangs imparts, 
Thrills the shelled shrimps, and opens oysters' hearts." — Canning. 

It is evident from this that Canning had thought of parodying the poem im- 
mediately after its publication, and that Walpofe had seen a specimen in nianu- 
script, nearly two years before its publication in the Anti-Jucohin, in which the 
two lines (28, 29) are thus altered :— 

"Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts, 
Shrinl^s shrivell'd shrimps, but opens oysters' liearts". 

By an oversight, Peter Cunningham, in liis edition of Walpole's Letters, attri- 
butes the latter's attack to a previous protluction of Knight's, published in 
1794, entitled The Landscape ; a iliilactic Poem in three Books, a work which had 
excited Walpole's high indignation by expressing opinions oppo.sed to his 
own. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 107 



No. XVI. 

Feb. 26, 1798. 
The specimen of the poem on the " Progress of Man," 
with which we favoured our Eeaders in our last Number, 
has occasioned a variety of letters, which we confess have 
not a little surprised us, from the unfounded, and even 
contradictory charges they contain. In one, we are 
accused of Malevolence, in bringing back to notice a 
work that had been quietly consigned to oblivion ; — in 
another, of Plagiarism, in copying its most beautiful 
passages ; — in a third, of Vanity, in striving to imitate 
what was in itself inimitable, &c., &c. But why this 
alarm? has the author of the ^^ Progress of Civil Societij" 
an exclusive patent for fabricating Didactic poems? or 
can we not write against Order and Government without 
incurring the guilt of Imitation ? We trust we were not 
so ignorant of the nature of a didactic poem (so called 
from didasJiein, to teach, and jwe^na, a poem ; because it 
teaches nothing, and is not poetical) even before the 
"Progress of Civil Society" appeared, hut that we were 
capable of such an undertaking. 

We shall only say further, that we do not intend to 
proceed regularly with our Poem ; but having the re- 
maining thirty-nine Cantos by us, shall content ourselves 
with giving, from time to time, such extracts as may 
happen to suit our purpose. 

The following passage, which, as the reader will see 
by turning to the Contents prefixed to the head of the 
Poem, is part of the First Canto, contains so happy a 



108 POETRY OF 

deduction of Man's present state of Depravity, from 
the first slips and failings of his Original State, and 
inculcates so forcibly the mischievous consequences of 
social or civilized, as opposed to natural society, that 
no dread of imputed imitation can prevent us from giving 
it to our readers. 

PKOGEESS OF MAN. 

Lo ! the rude savage, free from civil strife. 
Keeps the smooth tenour of his guiltless life ; 
Restrain'd by none, save Nature's lenient laws, 
Quaffs the clear stream, and feeds on hips and haws. 
Light to his daily sports behold him rise ! 65 

The bloodless baiiquet health and strength supplies. 
Bloodless not long — one morn he haps to stray 
Through the lone wood — and close beside the way 
Sees the gaunt tiger tear his trembling prey ; 
Beneath whose gory fangs a leveret bleeds, 70 

Or pig — such pig as fertile China breeds. 

Struck with the sight, the wondering savage stands. 
Rolls his broad eyes, and clasps his lifted hands ! 
Then restless roams — and loaths his wonted food ; 
Shuns the salubrious stream, and thirsts for blood. 75 

By thought matured, and quicken'd by desire, 

Ver. 61 — 66. Simple state of savage life — previous to the 
pastoral, or even the hunter state. 

Ver. 66. First savages disciples of Pythagoras. 

Ver. 67, &c. Desire of animal food natural only to beasts, 
or to man in a state of civilized society. First suggested by 
the circumstances here related. 

Ver. 71. Pigs of the Chinese breed most in request. 

Ver. 76. First formation of a bow. Introduction of the 
science of archerv. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 109 

New arts, new arms, his wayward wants require. 

From the tough yew a slender branch he tears, 

"With self-taught skill the twisted grass prepares ; 

Th' unfashioned bow, with labouring efforts bends 80 

In circling form, and joins th' unwilling ends. 

Next some tall reed he seeks — with sharp-edg'd stone 

Shapes the fell dart, and points wdth whiten'd bone. 

Then forth he fares. x\round in careless play, 
Kids, pigs, and lambkins unsuspecting stray ; 85 

With grim delight he views the sportive band, 
Intent on blood, and lifts his murderous hand. 
Twangs the bent bow — resounds the fatoful dart, 
Swift-wing'd, and trembles in a porker's heart. 

Ah, hapless porker ! what can now avail 90 

Thy back's stiff bristles, or thy curly tail? 
Ah ! what avail those eyes so small and round. 
Long pendent ears, and snout that loves the ground ? 

Not unreveng'd thou diest ! — in after times 
Prom thy spilt blood shall spring unnumber'd crimes. 95 
Soon shall the slaught'rous arms that wrought thy woe, 
Improved by malice, deal a deadlier blow ; 

Ver. 79. Grass twisted, used for a string, owing to the want 
of other materials not yet invented. 

Vei: 83. Bone — fish's bone found on the sea-shore, shark's 
teeth, &c. &c. 

Ver. 90. Ah ! what avails, &.c. — See Pope's DescrqAion of the 
death of a Pheasant. 

Ver. 93. " With leaden eye that loves the ground." 

Ver. 94. The first effusion of blood attended with the most 
dreadful consequences to mankind. 

Ver. 97. Social Man's wickedness opposed to the simplicity 
of savage life. 



110 



POETRY OF 



When social man shall pant for nobler game, 

And 'gainst his fellow man the vengeful weapon aim. 

As love, as gold, as jealousy inspires, 100 

As wrathful hate, or wild ambition iires, 
Urged by the statesman's craft, the tyrant's rage, 
Embattled nations endless wars shall wage. 
Vast seas of blood the ravaged field shall stain, 
And millions perish — that a king may reign ! 105 

For blood once shed, new wants and wishes rise ; 
Each rising want invention quick supplies. 
To roast his victuals is man's next desire. 
So two dry sticks he Jrubs, and lights a fire. 
Hail fire, &c. &c. 

Ver. 100, 101. Different causes of war among men. 
Ver. 106. Invention of fire — first employed in cookery, and 
produced by rubbing dry sticks together. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. Ill 



No. XVII. 

March 5, 1798. 
We are obliged to a learned correspondent for the 
following ingenious imitation of Bion. — We will not 
shock the eyes of our fair readers with the original 
Greek, but the following Argument will give them some 
idea of the nature of the Poem here imitated. 

ARGUMENT. 

Venus is represented as bringing to the Poet, while sleeping, 
her son Cnpid, with a request that he would teach him 
Pastoral Poetry — Bion complies, and endeavours to teach 
him the rise and progress of that art : — Cupid laughs at 
his mstructions, and in his turn teaches his master the 
Loves of Men and Gods, the "Wiles of his Mother, &c. — 
" Pleased with his lessons," says Bion, " I forgot what I 
lately taught Cupid and recollect in its stead only what 
Cupid taught me." 

IMITATION, &c.* 

written at ST. anne's hill. 

Scarce had sleep my eyes o'erspread, 
Ere Alecto sought my bed ; 
In her left hand a torch she shook, 
And in her right led John Horne Tooke. 
thou ! who well deserv'st the bays, 
Teach him, she cried, Sedition's lays — 
She said, and left us ; I, poor fool, 



[• Written in the character of C. J. Fox, at his seat, St. 
Anne's Hill, near Chertse}', during his secession from Parlia- 
ment from 1797 to 1802. His fondness for the Greek Poets 
is well known. — Ed.J 



112 POETRY OF 

Began the wily priest to school ; 
Taught him how Moira sung of lights, 
Blown out by troops o' stormy nights ; * 
How Erskine, borne on rapture's wings, 
At clubs and taverns sweetly sings 
Of self — while yawning Whigs attend — 
/SW/ first, last, midst, and without end ; f 
How Bedford piped, ill-fated Bard ; X 
Half-drown'd, in empty Palace-yard ; 
How Lansdowne, nature's simple child. 



[* Alhidecl to at page 79.— Ed.] 

[t Erskine was noted for his intense vanity, which procured 
him the nickname of Ego. Sir John Bowring, who knew him well, 
gives in his Autobiography several instances of this peculiarity, 
one of which is here inserted. " The master-string of his mind 
was vanity ; its vibrations trembling to the very end of his 
existence. He said, ' When the Emperor Alexander came to 
England, Lord Granville told me that the Emperor wished to 
see me. I went. He received me with particular attention, 
and said he was very anxious to make my acquaintance. He 
spoke English as well as yoxi do. " You are a friend and cor- 
respondent," he said, " of my naost valued friend La Harpe ? " 
"Yes, sire." "Is he a regular correspondent? " "Yes, a vei'y 
kind one." " Has he been so of late ? " " Well, if your Majesty 
will cross-examine me, I nmst own he owes me a letter." He 
put his hand into his pocket, and drew forth a letter addressed 
to me. " Yes, there is his answer. I intercepted it that I 
might have the pleasure of knowing Lord Erskine." I gave 
Alexander all my writings and speeches, which he received 
with many expressions of satisfaction.' " — Ed.] 

[J On April 3, 1797, an open-air meeting of the inhabitants 
of Westminster was held in Palace Yard, during very inclement 
weather (Westminster Hall having been shut against them by 
order of the keeper), to consider of an address to his Majesty 
to dismiss Pitt's ministry. Fox and the Duke of Bedford took 
part in the proceedings. Meetings were held about the same 
time all over the country for the same object. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 113 

At BowooD trills his wood-notes wild — * 
How these and more (a phrenzied choir) 
Sweep with bold hand Confusion's lyre, 
Till madding crowds around them storm 
" Fob one geand radical Eefoem ! " 

TooKE stood silent for a while, 
Listening with sarcastic smile ; 
Then in verse of calmest flow, 
Sung of treasons, deep and low, 
Of rapine, prisons, scaffolds, blood, 
Of war against the great and good ; 
Of Venice, and of Genoa's doom, 
And fall of unoffending Kome ; 
Of monarchs from their station hurl'd. 
And one waste desolated world. 

Charm'd by the magic of his tongue, 
I lost the strains I lately sung. 
While those he taught, remain impress'd 
For ever on my faithful breast. 

DOEUS. 

[* After Lord Shelburne's resignation of the office of Prime 
Minister, consequent on the coalition of Fox and Lord North, 
he was created Marquis of Lansdowne, and withdrew almost 
entu-ely from public life, passing his time principally at his 
magnificent seat, Bowood, near Calne, Wiltshire. — Ed.] 

[BION. IDYLLIUM IIL THE TEACHER TAUGHT. 

TRANSLATED BY FAWKES. 

As late I slumbering lay, before my sight 
Bright Venus rose in visions of the night : 
She led young Cupid ; as in thought profound 
His modest eyes were fixed upon the ground ; 
And thiis she spoke : " To thee, dear swain, I bring 
My little son ; instruct the boy to sing ". 
8 



114 POETRY OF 

No more she said ; but vanished into air, 

And left the wily pupil to my care : 

I, — (sure I was an idiot for my pains), 

Began to teach him old bucolic strains ; 

How Pan the pipe, how Pallas formed the flute, 

Phcebus the lyre, and Mercury the lute : 

Love, to my lessons quite regardless grown. 

Sang lighter lays, and sonnets of his own, 

Th' amours of men below, and gods above, 

And all the triumphs of the queen of love. 

I, sure the simplest of all shepherd swains, 

Full soon forgot my old bucolic strains ; 

The lighter lays of Love my fancy caught, 

And I remembered all that Cupid taiaght. — Ed.] 



Something like the same idea seems to have dictated 
the following Stanzas, which appear to be a loose imita- 
tion of the beautiful Dialogue of Horace and Lydia, and 
for w'hich, though confessedly in a lower style of poetry, 
and conceived rather in the slang, or Brentford dialect, 
than in the classical Doric of the foregoing Poem, we 
have many thanks to return to an ingenious academical 
correspondent. 

THE NEW COALITION. 1 

I. 
Fox. — When erst I coalesced with North 
And brought my Lid/an bantling forth " 
In place — I smiled at faction's storm, 
Nor dreamt of radical reform.. 

II. 
TooKE. — While yet no patriot project pushing, 
Content I thump'd old Brentford's cushion, 
I pass'd my life so free and gaily ; 
Not dreaming of that d d Old Bailey. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 115 

III. 

Fox. — Well ! now my favourite preacher's NicMe,^ 

He keeps for Pitt a rod in pickle ; 

His gestures fright th' astonish'd gazers, 

His sarcasms cut like Packwood's razors. 

IV. 

TooKE. — ThelwalVs^ my man for state alarm; 
I love the rebels of Chalk Farm ; 
Eogues that no statutes can subdue, 
Who'd bring the French, and head them too. 

V. 

Fox. — A whisper in your ear, John Hoene,^ 
For one great end we both were born, 
Alike we roar, and rant, and bellow — 
Give us your hand, my honest fellow. 

VI. 

TooKE. — Charles, for a shuffler long I've known thee : 
But come — for once, I'll not disown thee ; 
And since with patriot zeal thou burnest, 
With thee I'll live — or hang in earnest. 



[HOEACE. BOOK III., ODE IX. 

Horace. — Whilst I was fond, and you were kind, 
Nor any dearer youth, reclined 
On yoiu' soft bosom, sought to rest, 
Not Persia's monarch was so blest. 

Lydia. — Whilst yoii adored no other face, 
Nor loved me in the second place. 
Your Lydia' s celebrated fame 
Outshone the Koman Ilia's name. 

Horace. — Me Chloe now possesses whole ; 

Her voice and lyre command my soul : 
Nor would I death itself decline, 
Could I redeem her life with mine. 



116 POETBY OF 

Lydia. — For me young lovely Calais burns, 

And warmth for warmth my heart returns. 
Twice would I life for him resign, 
Could his be ransomed thus with mine. 

Horace. — What if the God, whose bands we broke, 
-- Again should tame us to the yoke ! 
"What if my Chloe cease to reign, 
And Lydia her lost power regain ! 

Lydia. — Though Phosphor be less fair than he; 
Thou wilder than the raging sea; 
Lighter than down ; yet gladly I 
"With thee would live, with thee would die. — Ed.] 



[Another version of this Ode published in the Anti- Jacobin 
Review, vol. 1, pp. 597-8 (the successor to the Anti- Jacobin), 
may perhaps not be considered out of place here. It was 
written by the Rev. C. E. Stewart, a constant contributor to 
the former journal. 

The Honey-Moon of Fox and Tooke. 

Donee gratus eram tibi. 

Fox. — Since Fox of his Tooke is possest, 

No sorrows my bosom can harass ; 
"What Director was ever so blest ? 
I'm greater, far greater than B arras. 

Tooke. — If Fox to his consort is true. 

And this blest Coalition sincere, 
I'll engage as a private with you, 
Nor envy thy fame, Robespierre. 

Fox. — You once were the worst of my foes, 
E'en Pitt I detested not more, 
"When you dar'd my Election oppose, 
And eternal antipathy swore. 

Tooke. — Not to you was my hatred confin'd. 

Your father I styled " The Defaulter," 
Drew a portrait of both, and consign'd 
Both father and son to the halter. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 117 

Fox. — Drive these hated reflections away ; 
For you I would gladly resign. 
Jockey Norfolk, big Bedford, and Grey ; 
But they answer your purpose and mine. 

TOOKE. — "Whate'er you attempt or intend, 

I am yours, and will bring at your call, 
Binns, Gurney, Scott, Ferguson, Fi-end, 
Corresponding Society— all. 

Both. — Thus reconcil'd, fond, and delighted, 
Together we'll ride in the storm, 
While Jacobin Clubs, all united. 

Make a radical, perfect Keform. — Ed.] 



Notes to the " New Coalition ". 

[^ The Secret History of Fox's coalition with Lord North, 
his former adversary, — a proceeding which entailed on him 
much odium, — was first brought to light by the publication of 
the "Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox," 
begim by the late Lord Holland, and edited by Earl Russell. 
It was occasioned by his disgust at the conduct of the Earl of 
Shelburne, for while Fox as one of the Secretaries of State 
under the Piockingham Administration was treating with Dr. 
Franklin for peace with the United States through the agent of 
the Cabinet (Tliomas Grenville) Lord Shelburne, the other 
Secretary of State, was, through his agent Oswald, privately 
thwarting his measures, and that with the concurrence of the 
King ! The consequence of the Coalition was the fall of Lord 
Shelburne's ministry, and Fox and Lord North's "taking the 
Treasury by storm". — Ed.] 

[- The India Bill brought in by Fox, shortly after his acces- 
sion to office, was the signal for his downfall. The Bill passed 
the House of Commons by large majorities, but when it reached 
the Lords, the King, who hated Fox, empowered Earl Temple 
to declare that he would consider everyone who supported the 
measure as personally his enemy. The Bill was consequently 
lost on the second reading by a majority of eighty-seven against 
twenty-nine. The Coalition Ministry resigned, and Pitt, then 
in his 23rd year, became Prime Mmister.] 



118 POETEY or 

p John Nicholls, M.P. for Tregony, was blind of one eye, 
and altogether remarkably ugly. His delivery was imgraceful, 
and his action generally much too vehement. He wrote Recol- 
lections and Reflections during the Reign of George III. ,2 vols. 8vo., 
1822. His hostile pamphlet on the Income Tax is marked by 
great ability.^ED.] 

[* On the 14th April, 1794, Thelwall was in the chair at a 
supper of one of the Divisions of the Reformers, and blowing 
off the head of a pot of porter said, " This is the way I would 
have all kings served". — Ed.] 

[5 John Horne Tooke was educated for the Church, and in 
1760 became vicar of Neiv Brentford. Resigning this he studied 
the Law, but being a clergj'man was refused admission to the 
Bar. At first he supported Pitt, then a ■promising Reformer, 
publishing in 1788 his " Two Pair of Portraits," disadvan- 
tageously contrasting Fox and his father with Pitt and his 
father. But Pitt not fulfilling his hopes, he became his bitter 
opponent and softened his animosity towards Fox. In 1775 he 
was imprisoned for a libel on the king's troops in America. In 
1790 he was an imsuccessful candidate for Westminster ; the 
other candidates being Fox and Admiral Sir Alan Gardner. In 
1794 he was tried, in company with Thelwall and others, for 
high treason, when all were acqiiitted. In 1796 he again stood 
for Westminster, and failed ; biit in 1801 he obtained a seat in 
Parliament for Old Sarum, on the nomination of Lord Camel- 
ford. A remarkable memoir of him was contributed to the 
(Quarterly Review, vol. 7, by Lord Dudley, Secretary for Foreign 
Affairs in Canning's administration, 1827-8. — Ed.1 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 119 



No. xviir. 

March 12, 1798. 
We are indebted for the following exquisite imitation of 
one of the most beautiful Odes of Horace, to an unknown 
hand. All that we can say is, that it came to us in a 
blank cover sealed with a ducal coronet, and that it 
appears evidently to be the production of a mind not 
more classical than convivial. 

ODE. 
Whitheb, O Bacchus, in thy train,* 
Dost thou transport thy votary's brain 

With sudden inspiration ? 
Where dost thou bid me quaff my wine, 
And toast new measures to combine 

The Great and Little Nation ? 
Say, in what tavern I shall raise t 
My mighty voice in Charley's praise, 

And dream of future glories. 
When Fox, with salutary sway 
(Terror the Order of the Day), 

Shall reign o'er King and Tories ? 

HOK. LIB. III., CAKM. XXV. 

DITHYRAMBUS. 

*Quo me, Bacche, rapis, tiii 

Plenum? quae nemora, aut quos agor in specus, 

Velox mente novS, ? 

t Qnibus 
Antris egregii Cassaris audiar 
Eterniuii meditans decns 
Stellis inserere, et consilio Jovis ? 



J 



120 POETBY OF 



My mighty feelings must have way ! * 
A toast I'll give — a thing I'll say, 

As yet misaid by any, — 
"OuE Sov'beign Lobd!" — let those who doubt 
My honest meaning, hear me out — 

"His Majesty — the Many!" 

Plain folks may be surprised, and stare, f 
As much surprised as Bob Adaib 

At Eussia's wooden houses ; 
And Eussian snows, that lie so thick ; | 
And Eussian boors § that daily kick. 

With barbarous foot, their spouses. 

What joy, when drunk, at midnight's hour,|| 
To stroll through Covent Garden's bow'r, 

Its various charms exploring ; 
And, 'midst its shrubs and vacant stalls. 
And proud Piazza's crumbling walls, 

Hear trulls and watchmen snoring ! 



* Dicaui iiisigue, recens, adlmc 
Indictum ore alio. 

f Non secus in jugis 
Exsomnis stupet Evias, 
Hebriim prospiciens, 

X et nive candidam 
Thracen, ac j^ede barbaro 
Lustratam Rhodopen. 
§ There appears to have been some little mistake in the 
Translator here — Rhodofe is not, as he seems to imagine, the 
name of a woman, bnt of a mountain, and not in Russia. Pos- 
sibly, however, the Translator may have been misled by the 
inaccuracy of the traveller here alluded to. 
II Ut mihi devio 
Rupes, et vacuum nemus 
Mirari libet ! 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

Parent of wine, and gin, and beer * 
The nymphs of BilHngsgate you cheer ; 

Naiads robust and hearty ; 
As Brookes's chairmen fit to wield 
Their stout oak bludgeons in the field, 

To aid our virtuous party. 
Mortals ! no common voice you hear ; t 
Militia Colonel, Premier Peer, 

Lieutenant of a County ! 
I speak high things ! yet, god of wine, 
For thee, I fear not to resign 

These gifts of royal bounty. 



121 



* O Naiadiun poteiis 
Baccharumque valentinm 
Proceras manibiis vertere fraxinos. 
Nil parvum, ant liumili moclo, 
Nil mortale loquar. Dulce periculmii est, 
O Leiisee, sequi deum 
Cingentem viridi tempora pampino. 



[HOEACE. BOOK III., ODE XXV. TO BACCHUS. 

TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS. 

Whither in sacred ecstasy, 

Bacchus, when Ml of thy divmity, 

Dost thou transport me ? To what glades ? 

"What gloomy caverns, unfrequented shades? 

In what recesses shall I raise 

My voice to sacred Caesar's deathless praise, 

Amid the stars to bid him shine, 

Ranked in the councils of the powers divme ? 

Some bolder song shall wake the lyre, 

And sounds unknown its trembhng strmgs mspn-e. 

Thus o'er the steepy mountains' height. 

Starting from sleep, thy priestess takes her flight : 

Amazed, behold the Thracian snows, 

With languid streams where icy Heber flows 

Or Rhodope's high-towering head, 



122 POETRY OF 

"Where frantic choirs barbarian measures tread. 

O'er pathless rocks, through lonely groves, 

With what delight my raptnred spirit roves ! 

O thou, who rul'st the Naiad's breast ; 

By whom the Bacchanalian maids, possessed 

With sacred rage inspired by thee, 

Tear from the bursting glebe th' uprooted tree ; 

Nothing or low, or mean, I sing. 

No mortal sound shall shake the swelling string. 

The venturous theme my soul alarms ; 

But warmed by thee the thought of danger chai'ms. 

When vine-crowned Bacchus leads the way. 

What can his daring votaries dismay ? — Ed.] 

[The preceding Ode, written in the character of Charles Howard, eleventli 
Duke oi" Norfolk, refers to the fanions toast, " Our Sovereign's health — the 
Majesty of the People," proposed by his Grace at a Banquet at the " Crown 
and Anchor Tavern," Strand, on the 24th January, 1798, given to celebrate the 
birthday of C. .J. Fox. For this toast and other sentiments promulgated at 
the meeting, his Grace a few days after received notice of his dismissal from 
the Lord-Lieutenancy of the West Riding of Yorkshire and his Colonelcy in 
the INIllitia, and on the 6th of February Earl Fitzwilliam was gazetted to the 
former office, vice the Duke of Norfolk, resumed. But sixteen years earlier, this 
Toasi was not considered seditious ; for in the General Adrtrtiscr oi the 13th of 
April, 1782, then edited by Perry (afterwards the eminent proprietor of the 
Morniiui Chronicle), we find an account of a dinner of the electors of Westminster 
held the preceding day at the Shakespeare Tavern, Earl Fitzwilliam in the 
chair. The first toast given by his Lordship was, "The ]NL\jesty of the 
People". It was drunk by the Earl of Effingham, the Earl of Surrey (after- 
wards Duke of Norfolk, and the subject of the present remarks), Mr. Secretary 
Fox, Burke, Windham, Dean .Jebb, .J. Churchill, Brand Mollis, Dr. Brocklesby, 
&c. Thus the identical toast was proposed and drunk l.>y the Earl of Fitz- 
william, to whom the Lord-Lieutenancy now taken from the Duke of Norfolk 
was given. It is not a little remarkable that Lord Fitzwilliam himself was 
dismissed by his new Tory allies, Oct. 23, 1819, from the same Lord-Lieutenancy 
of the West Riding of Yorkshire, having signed the requisition for the York 
meeting, at which resolutions were passed condemning the measures of Ministers 
(Lords Liverpool, Eldon, Bathurst, Castlereagh, Palmerston, 6:c.), respecting 
the Manchester Reform Meeting, called by Henry Hunt, on ICth August, at 
which occurred what is known as the "Peterloo Massacre". — Ed.] 

["The Majesty of the People," as given ox Fox's Birthday. 

The company was a very large one, but the estimated number of 2000 diners 
is surely an error. The Duke of Norfolk presided, supported by the Duke of 
Bedford, the Earls of Lauderdale and Oxford, Sheridan, Tierney, Erskine, 
Capt. Morris (who produced three new songs for the occasion), and Home 
Tooke ; the latter became reconciled to Fox by the explanation the latter gave 
of his sentiments on parliamentary reform. On the cloth being removed, he 
rose and said, "We are met in a moment of most serious difficulty to celebrate 
the birth of a man dear to the friend of freedom. I shall only recall to your 
memory that not twenty years ago, the illustrious George Washington 
had not more than two thousand men to rally round him when his country 
was attacked. America is now free. This day full two thousand men are 
assembled in this place. I leave the application to you. I propose to you the 
health of Charles James Fox." 

In the course of the evening the Duke's health was drunk with great en- 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 123 

thusiasm. He returned thanks, and concluded his speech with these words, 
"Give me leave to call on you to drink, Our Sovereign's health, 
"The Majesty of the People". 

After this toast had been drunk and warmly applauded, the Duke gave succes- 
sively, "The Rights of the People," " Constitutional Redress of the Wrongs of the 
People," " A speedy and effectual Reform in the Representation of the People 
in Parliament," " The genuine Principles of the British Constitution," "The 
People of Ireland, and may they be speedily lestored to the Blessings of Law 
and Liberty ". 

On the 6th of February, the next monthly meeting of the IVJiiij Club was held 
at the London Tavern, Ludgate Hill. The Duke of Norfolk presided. He 
gave as a toast, " The Man who dares be honest in the worst of times— 

"Charles James Fox". 

Fox returned thanks, and then toasted 

"The Sovereignty of the People". 

He subsequently proposed the health of the Duke of Norfolk in a most 
powerful speech. He adverted to the dismissal of the Duke. " No reason had 
been ofKcially assigned ; it was, however, generally understood that it had arisen 
from the eulogium pronounced on General Washington. Was it to be 
wondered at, that the noble Duke, who had uniformly opposed the American 
war, should have done so? What Englishman, what man of any country, whose 
heart was animated with a love of freedom, did not venerate the name of that 
illustrious patriot? It seems also " a toast " has given offence — the Majesty of 
the People. I do not know upon what times we are fallen, but the sovereignty 
of the people of Great Britain is surely a thing not new to the language, to the 
feelings, nor the hearts of Englishmen. It is the basis of the whole system of 
our Government. It is an opinion, which if it be not true. King William was 
an usurper. By what right did the glorious and immortal King William tlie 
Third, whose portrait is placefl on our chair, come to the throne of these realms, 
il not by that of the sovereignty of the people? . . . The King holds liis 
title by an Act of Parliament. Who called that Parliament? King William 
the Third. By what right did he obtain it? By a Convention representing the 
sovereignty of the people. The Convention of Representatives in fact did the 
thing. It is whimsical enough to deprive the noble Duke of his appointments for 
an offence which, if he had not committed during the reigns of George I. and 
George II. , would have subjected him to the charge of being a Jacobite, and an 
adherent of the exiled family. ... Of the persons of his Majesty's Ministers 
I will not say a word. There are several of them to whom I may fairly say this 
sentiment is not new. One member of the Cabinet (the Duke of Portland) is 
still a member of this club ; another (Mr. Windham) was a member ; and a 
third (Earl Spencer) long gloried in holding the same tenets. How often with 
the two first have we drunk the sentiment in this room ! A\ hat did they mean 
when they drank the Sovereignty of the People ? What, but that they recog- 
nised by this approved and customary method a truth which belongs to all 
people in reality, but is the avowed basis of the Government of England, that 
the people of every country are its legitimate Sovereign, and that all authority 
is delegated from and for them ? I should be ashamed, on account of my old 
respect for those persons, if they did not honestly avow this to be their sense of 
the sentiment." 

While adverting, on this occasion, to the dismiss.al of the Duke of Norfolk 
from his Lord-Lieutenancy and Colonelcy of Militia, Fox remarked, "I have 
nothing the Ministers can take from me. I am still indeed a Privy Councillor, 
at least I know nothing to the contrary ; and if this sentiment entitles the 
Noble Duke to this animadversion, I shall certainly feel that I am equally 
entitled to this mark of his Majesty's displeasure." This anticipation was 
verified shortly afterwards. 

On the 1st of May following, at the Freemasons' Tavern, another dinner of 
the U'liig Club took place. Fox was in the chair, and gave, as the first toast — 
"The Sovereignty of the People of Gre.\t Britain". 



124 POETRY OF 

The Duke of Norfolk proposed "The Health of the Man who dares be 
Honest in the worst of Times — 

"Charlks James Fox". 

Fox responded in a most impressive speech. He said : " On any other occa- 
sion, he should have contented himself with returning thanks, but in the very 
peculiar embarrassments in which the country was now plunged, he thought it 
necessary to say a few words in the only place in which he thought it might be 
useful for him to deliver his sentiments. The circumstances and events of 
public affairs of late had induced him and many of his friends to abstain from 
their usual assiduous attendance in Parliament. Their e.xertions for the preser- 
vation of the Constitution had been of no avail ; two years ago they had seen 
the repeal of the Bill of Rights carried by a triumphant majority ; they had 
seen the functions of the Constitutional Law suspended, on alarm created by 
the Ministers themselves ; and however well-founded the alarm might now be, 
he .scorned the idea that it was necessary for him to attend in his place in the 
House of Commons, for the purpose only of vindicating himself from the vulgar 
calumny that he was not an enemy to a foreign invasion. It would be an insult 
on his whole life if such a declaration could be expected from him. He believed 
there was not a voice in the assembly he addres.sed which was not in unison 
with his own — namely, that every man who heard him was both ready and 
willing to stand forth in defence of his country, with the spirit that belongs to 
Englishmen. He found no fault with those who thought it necessary to make 
the.se professions elsewhere. Thus much only would he say in this place for 
himself. The j^rcscnt Government of the country, he had no hesitation in sai/ing, v:as 
a Gnvermnent of Tyranny. They had adopted the princij>les of Robespierre, and their 
object was to establish tyranny in England. Look at the situation of the Si.ster 
Kingdom ; our own will soon be the same. He had no remedy to recommend 
but that the friends of freedom should be united and firm, and wait for better 
times. Tyranny was now the oider of the day in every country in Europe. 
Notwithstanding the arbitrary proceedings of our own Ministers, he was per- 
suaded the unanimous feeling of the country, the universal determination of 
every man in it was to be ready to take the field against a foreign foe ; and, 
indeed, they had a powerful motive to do so, for if they were united, they had 
a better chance to get rid of the tyranny of their own Ministers than they could 
possibly have by the success of a foreign invasion. Even in his present retire- 
ment he should be ready to come forward, in every constitutional effort, to re- 
gain our lost liberties ; and he should be in the foremost of the ranks to repel 
the invasion of a daring enemy." 

This speech led to a most important consequence — the erasing from the 
Privy Council Book the name of one of the most illustrious statesmen which 
had ever adorned it. Fox's name was struck out by the King on the 9tli of 
May. 

On the Cth of June, after the dinner at the Wliig Club, the Duke of Bedford 
proposed "The Health of Charles Fox," and remarked in severe terms oa 
Ministers having caused the King to strike his name out of the list of the Privy 
Council. Fox said : "It would be most unlit for him to say a word respecting 
the Noble Duke's allusion to a circumstance personal to himself. Would to God 
the time of the .Ministers had been always employed in such frivolmts fooleries as 
settling v/ho .should )ie Honourable und who Jiight Honourable, und deliberating 
on the titles most befitting their friends and supporters." Fox, with some of 
his supporters, seceded from Parliament in 1797, and returned to the House of 
Commons in 1802 to defend the Peace of Amiens, and he was persuaded to con- 
tinue his parliamentary attendance by the urgent request of friends, with whose 
wishes he felt himself bound to comply. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 125 



No. XIX. 

March 19, 1798. 
For the authenticity of the enclosed Ballad we refer 
our readers to a volume of MS. Poems discovered upon 
the removal of some papers, during the late alterations 
which have taken place at the Tax-office, in consequence 
of the Eeports of the Finance Committee. 

It has been communicated to our printer by an in- 
genious friend of his, who occasionally acts for the 
Deputy Collector of the Parish of St. Martin in the 
Fields ; but without date, or any other mark, by which 
we are enabled to guess at the particular subject of the 
composition. 

CHEVY CHASE.* 

God prosper long our noble king, 

Our lives and safeties all : 
A woeful story late there did 

In Britain's Isle befall. 

Duke Smithson, of Noethumberland, 

A vow to God did make, 
The choicest gifts in fair England, 

For him and his to take. 



[* This clever parody has reference to the attempt made by 
the Duke of Noethumberland to evade payment of Pitt's 
Income-tax. To mitigate the severity of the pressure on 
persons with large families, a dediiction of ten per cent, was 
allowed to persons who had above a certain nmnber of 
children. Among others the dike was not ashamed to avail 
himself of this clause. — Ed.] 



126 POETEY OF 

" Stand fast, my merry men," he cried, 

" By Moika's Earl and me, 
And we will gain place, wealth and pow'r, 

As arm'd neutrality. 

"Excise and Customs, Church and Law, 

I've begg'd from Mader Eose ; 
The Garter too — but still tlie Blues 

I'll have, or I'll oppose." 

" Now God be with him," quoth the King, 

" Sith 'twill no better be ; 
I trust we have within our realm 

Five hundred good as he." 

The Duke then join'd with Charley Fox, 

A leader ware and tried. 
And Ebskine, Sheridan, and Geey 

Fought stoutly by his side. 

Throughout the English Parliament, 

They dealt full many a wound ; 
But in his king's and country's cause, 

Pitt firmly stood his ground. 

And soon a law like arrow keen. 

Or spear, or curtal-axe. 
Struck poor Duke Smithson to the heart. 

In shape of Poivder-tax.'^ 

Sore leaning on his crutch, he cried, 

" Crop, crop, my merry men all ; 
No guinea for your head I'll pay, 

Though Church and State should fall ". 

[* See Note at p. 84 in « A Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox," line 
18.— Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 127 

Again the taxing-man appear'd — 

No deadlier foe could be ; 
A schedule of a cloth-yard long, 

Within his hand bore he. 

" Yield thee, Duke Smithson, and behold 

The assessment thou must pay ; 
Dogs, horses, houses, coaches, clocks, 

And servants in array." 

" Nay," quoth the Duke, " in thy black scroll 

Deductions I espye — 
For those who, poor, and mean, and low. 

With children burthen'd lie. 

' ' And though full sixty thousand pounds 

My vassals pay to me. 
From Cornwall to Northumberland, 

Through many a fair countee ; 

" Yet England's church, its king, its laws, 

Its cause, I value not, 
Compar'd with this, my constant text, 

A penny sav'd, id got. 

" No drop of princely Percy's blood 
Through these cold veins doth run ; 

With Hotxpnrs castles, blazon, name, 
I still am poor Smithson. 

" Let England's youth unite in arms. 

And every liberal hand, 
With honest zeal, subscribe their mite. 

To save their native land : 



128 



POETRY OF 



" I at St. Martin's Vestry Board, 

To swear shall be content, 
That I have children eight, and claim 

Dedtictions ten per cent." 

God bless us all from factious foes, 

And French fraternal kiss ; 
And grant the king may never make 

Another Duke like this.* 

[* Sir Hugh Smithson married Lady Eliz, Seymour, great- 
granddanghter of Joceline, eleventh Earl of Northmiiberland, 
who was the last of the male Percies. He was created Duke 
OF Northumberland in 1766. The hero of this Ballad was his 
son, who died in 1817. — Ed.] 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 129 



No. XX. 

ODE TO JACOBINISM. 

March 26, 1798. 
I. 
Daughtee of Hell, insatiate power, 

Destroyer of the human race, 
Whose iron scourge and madd'ning hour 

Exalt the bad, the good debase ; 
Thy mystic force, despotic sway. 
Courage and innocence dismay, 
And patriot monarchs vainly groan 
With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone ! 

II. 

When first to scourge the sons of earth, 
Thy sire his darling child design'd, 

Gallia receiv'd the monstrous birth — 
Voltaire inform'd thy infant mind ; 

Well-chosen nurse ! his sophist lore 

He bade thee many a year explore ! 

He mark'd thy progress, firm though slow, 
And statesmen, princes, leagued with their invet'rate foe. 

III. 
Scared at thy frown terrific, fly 

The morals (antiquated brood) ; 
Domestic Virtue, social Joy, 

And Faith that has for ages stood : 
Swift they disperse, and with them go 
The friend sincere, the gen'rous foe. — 

9 



130 POETEY OF 

Traitors to God and man avow'd, 
By thee now rais'd aloft, now crush' d beneath the crowd. 

IV. 

Eevenge, in blood-stain'd robe arrayed, 
Immersed in gloomy joy profound ; 

Ingratitude, by guilt dismay'd, 

With anxious eye wild glancing round, 

Still on thy frantic steps attend : 

With Death, thy victim's only friend. 

Injustice, to the truth severe, 
And Anguish, dropping still the life-consuming tear. 

v. 

Oh swiftly on my country's head, 

Destroyer, lay thy ruthless hand ; 
Nor yet in Gallic terrors clad, 

Nor circled by the Marseilles hand, 
(As by th' initiate thou art seen). 
With thund'ring cannon, guUlotine, 
With screaming Horror's funeral cry. 
Fire, Eapine, sword, and chains, and ghastly Poverty. 

VI. 

Thy sophist veil, dread goddess, wear, 

Falsehood insidiously impart ; 
Thy philosophic train, be there. 

To taint the mind, corrupt the heart ; 
The gen'rous virtues of our isle. 
Teach us to hate and to revile ; 
Our glorious Charter's faults to scan, 
Time-sauction'd truths despise, and preach thy Eights 
OF Man. 

An English Jacobin. 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 



131 



[The original poem, of which the above is an imitation, is 
subjoined : — 

HYMN TO ADVEESITY. 

BY THOMAS GRAY. 

Daughter of Jove, relentless power. 

Thou tamer of the human breast, 
"Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, 

The bad affright, afflict the best 1 
Bound in thy adamantine chain, 
The proud are taught to taste of pain, 
And purple tyrants vainly groan, 
"With pangs imfelt before, mipitied and alone. 

"When first thy sire to send on earth 

Virtue, his darling child, designed, 

To thee he gave the heavenly birth,_ 

And bade thee form her infant mind, 
Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore 
With patience many a year she bore : 
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, 
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. 

Scared at thy frown terrific, fly 

Self-pleasing Folly's idle brood. 
Wild Laughter, Noise, and thoughtless Joy, 

And leave us leisure to be good. 
Light they disperse, and with them go 
The summer friend, the flattering foe ; 
By vain prosperity received. 
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed. 

Wisdom, in sable garb arrayed, 

Iimnersed in rapturous thought profound, 

And Melancholy, silent maid. 

With leaden "eye that loves the ground, 

Still on thy solenui steps attend : 

Warm Charity, the general friend, 

With Justice, to herself severe. 
And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. 

O, gently on thy suppliant's head, 

Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand ! 

Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad. 

Nor circled with the vengeful band 



132 



POETRY OP 



(As by the impious thou art seen), 
With thundering voice, and threatening mien, 
With screaming Horror's fmieral cry. 
Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. 

Thy form benign, goddess I wear, 

Thy milder influence impart. 
Thy philosophic train be there, 

To soften not to wound my heart. 
The generous spark extinct revive ; 
Teach me to love and to forgive ; 
Exact my own defects to scan, 
What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.- 



-Ed.] 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 133 



No. XXL 

April 2, 1798. 

We promised in our Sixteenth Number, that though 
we should not proceed regularly with the publication 
of the Didactic Poem, the Progress of Man, — a work 
which, indeed, both from its bulk, and from the erudite 
nature of the subject, would hardly suit with the pur- 
poses of a Weekly Paper, — we should, nevertheless, 
give from time to time such extracts from it as we 
thought were likely to be useful to our readers, and 
as were in any degree connected with the topics or 
events of the times. 

The following extract is from the 23rd Canto of this 
admirable and instructive Poem ; — in which the author 
(whom, by a series of accidents, which we have neither 
the space, nor indeed the liberty, to enumerate at 
present, we have discovered to be Mr. Higgins, of 
*S'^. Mary Axe) describes the vicious refinement of what 
is called civilized society, in respect to marriage ; con- 
tends with infinite spirit and philosophy against the 
factitious sacredness and indissolubility of that institu- 
tion ; and paints in glowing colours the happiness and 
utility (in a moral as well as political view) of an ar- 
rangement of an opposite sort, such as prevails in 
countries which are yet under the influence of pure 
and unsophisticated nature. 

In illustration of his principles upon this subject, the 
author alludes to a popular production of the German 
Drama, the title of which is the " Eeformed House- 



134 POETRY OF 

keeper" \Tlie Stranger], which he expresses a hope of 
seeing transfused into the language of this country. 

THE PEOGEESS OF MAN. 
■ CANTO TWENTY-THIRD. 

CONTENTS. 

On Marriage. — Marriage being indissoluble the cause of its 
being so often unhappy. — Nature's laws not consulted in 
this point. — Civilized nations mistaken. — Otaheite : Hap- 
piness of the natives thereof — visited by Captain Cook, in 
his Majesty's Ship Endeavoiir — Character of Captain Cook. — 
Address to Circumnavigation. — Description of His Majesty's 
Ship Endeavour --Msjiit, rigging, sea-sickness, prow, poop, 
mess-room, surgeon's mate — History of one. — Episode con- 
cerning naval chirurgery. — Catching a Thunny Fish. — Arrival 
at Otaheite^ — cast anchor — land — Natives astonished. — Love 
— Liberty — Moral — Natural- — Religious — Contrasted with 
European manners. — Strictness — License — Doctor's Com- 
mons. — Dissolubility of Marriage recommended — Illustrated 
by a game at Cards — Whist — Cribbage — Partners changed — 
Why not the same in Marriage ? — Illvistrated by a River. — 
Love free. — Priests, Kings. — German Drama. — Kotzebue's 
"Housekeeper Reformed". — Moral employments of House- 
keeping described — Hottentots sit and stare at each other 
— Querj^ WHY? — Address to the Hottentots — History of the 
Cape of Good Hope. — Resume of the Arguments against 
Marriage. — Conclusion. 

PEOGEESS OF MAN. 

EXTRACT. 

Hail ! beauteous lands''' that crown the Southern Seas ; 

Dear happy seats of Liberty and Ease ! 

Hail ! whose green coasts the peaceful ocean laves, 

* The ceremony of invocation (in didactic poems especially) 
is in some measure analogous to the custom of drinking toasts ; 
the corporeal representatives of which are always supposed to 
be absent, and unconscious of the irrigation bestowed upon 
their names. Hence it is, that our Author addresses himself to 
the natives of an island who are not likely to hear, and who, 
if they did, would not understand him. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 135 

Incessant washing with its watery waves ! 
DeHcious islands ! to whose envied shore 
Thee, gallant Cook ! the ship Endeavour* bore. 

There laughs the sky, there zephyr's frolic train, 
And light- wing'd loves, and blameless pleasures reign : 
There, when two souls congenial ties unite, 
No hireling Bonzes chant the mystic rite ; 
Free every thought, each action unconfin'd, 
And light those fetters which no rivets bind. 

There in each grove, each sloping bank along, 
And flow'rs and shrubs and odorous herbs among. 
Each shepherd clasp'd, with undisguis'd delight. 
His yielding fair one, — in the Captain's sight ; 
Each yielding fair, as chance or fancy led, 
Preferr'd new lovers to her sylvan bed.f 

Learn hence, each nymph, whose free aspiring mind 
Europe's cold laws, J and colder customs§ bind — 
! learn, what Nature's genial laws decree — 
What Otaheite 11 is, let Britain be ! 



* His Majesty's ship Endeavour. 

f In justice to our Author we must observe, that there is a 
delicacy in this picture, which the words, in their common 
acceptation, do not convey. The amours of an English shep- 
herd would probably be preparatory to marriage (which is con- 
trary to our Author's principles), or they might disgust lis by 
the vulgarity of their object. But in Otaheite, where the 
place of a shepherd is a perfect sinecure (there being no sheep 
on the island), the mind of the reader is not offended by any 
disagreeable allusion. 

X Laws made by parliaments or kings. 

§ Customs voted or imposed by ditto, not the customs here 
alluded to. 

II M. Bailly and other astronomers have observed, that in 



136 POETRY OF 

Of WHIST or CRiBBAGE mark th' amusing game — 
The partners changing, but the sport the same. 
Else would the gamester's anxious ardour cool, 
Dull every deal, and stagnant every pool. 
— Yet must one '^ Man, with one unceasing "Wife, 
Play the long rubber of connubial life. 

Yes ! human laws, and laws esteem'd divine, 
The generous passion straiten and confine ; 
And, as a stream, when art constrains its course, 
Pours its fierce torrent with augmented force, 
So, Passiont narrowed to one channel small. 
Unlike the former, does not flow at all. 
— For Love then only flaps his purple wings. 
When uncontroll'd by priestcraft or by kings. 

Such the strict rules, that, in these barbarous climes, 
Choke youth's fair flow'rs, and feelings turn to crimes; 
And people every walk of polish'd lifej 
With that two-headed monster, Man and Wife. 

Yet bright examples sometimes we observe, 
Which from the general practice seem to swerve ; 

consequence of the varying obliquity of the Ecliptic, the 
climates of the circumpolar and tropical climates may, in pro- 
cess of time, be materially changed. Perhaps it is not very 
likely that even by these means Britain may ever become a 
small island in the South Seas. But this is not the meaning 
of the verse — the similarity here proposed relates to manners, 
not to local situation. 

* The word one here, means all the inhabitants of Europe 
(excepting the French, who have remedied this inconvenience), 
not any particular individual. The Author begs leave to dis- 
claim every allusion that can be construed as personal. 

t As a stream — simile of dissimilitude, a mode of illustration 
familiar to the ancients. 

X Walks of polished life, see " Kensington Gardens," a poem. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 137 

Such as presented to Germania's* view, 

A Kotzebue's bold emphatic pencil drew ; 

Such as, translated in some future age, 

Shall add new glories to the British stage ; 

— While the moved audience sit in dumb despair, 

" Like Hottentots, + and at each other stare ". 

With look sedate, and staid beyond her years, 
In matron weeds a Housekeeper appears. 
The jingling keys her comely girdle deck — 
Her 'kerchief colour'd, and her apron checJc. 
Can that be Adelaide, that " soul of whim," 
Reformed in practice, and in manner prim? 
— On household cares intent, J with many a sigh 
She turns the pancake, and she moulds the pie ; 
Melts into sauces rich the savoury ham ; 
From the crush'd berry strains the lucid jam ; 
Bids bran died cherries, § by infusion slow. 
Imbibe new flavour, and their own forego. 
Sole cordial of her heart, sole solace of her woe ! 
While, still responsive to each mournful moan. 
The saucepan simmers in a softer tone. 



* Germania— Germany ; a cottntry in Eiarope, peopled by 
the German! : alluded to in Csesar's Commentaries, page 1, vol. 
ii. edit. prin. See also several Didactic Poems. 

f A beautiful figure of German literature. The Hottentots 
remarkable for staring at each other — God knows whj'. 

X This delightful and instructive picture of domestic life is 
recommended to all keepers of boarding-schools, and other 
seminaries of the same nature. 

§ It is a singular quality of brandied cherries that they 
exchange their flavour for that of the liqiior in which they are 
immersed. — See Knight's Progress of Civil Society. 



138 POETRY OF 

[The following extracts will give some idea of Payne Kxight's poem. 

Hail ! happy States, that fresh in vigour rise 
From Europe's wrecks beneath Atlantic skies ! 
Long may ye feel the blessings ye bestow ; 
Nor e'er your parents' sicklysyniptoras know ! 
But when that parent, crush'd beneath the weight 
Of debts ajid taxes, yields herself to fate ; 
May you her hapless fugitives receive. 
Comfort their sorrows, and their wants relieve ! 
For come it will — th' inevitable day, 
When Britain must corruption's forfeit pay, 
Beneath a despot's, or a rabble's sway. 

After a glowing description of the amours of a shepherd and shepherdess, 
he thus speaks of Marriarje :— 

Bless'd days of youth, of liberty, and love ! 
How short, alas ! your transient ]»leasures prove ! 
Just as we think the sweet delights our own, 
We strive to fix them, and we find them flown : — 
For fix'd by laws, and limited by rules, 
Affection stagnates and love's fervour cools ; 
Shrinks like the gather'd flower, which, when possess'd, 
Droops in the hand, or withers on the breast : 
Feels all its native bloom and fragrance fly. 
And death's pale shadows close its purple dye. 
While nmtual wishes form love's only vows. 
By mutual interests nursed, the union grows ; 
Respectful fear its rising power maintains. 
And both preserve, when each may break, its chains. 

But when in bands indissoluble join'd, 
Secui-ely torpid sleeps the sated mind ; 
No anxious hopes or fears arise, to move 
The flagging wings, or stir the fires of love : 
Benumb'd, the soul's best energies repose. 
And life in dull unvaried torpor flows ; 
Or only shakes off lethargy to teaze 
Whom once its only pleasure was to please. — Ed.] 

In illustration of these peculiar doctrines of Love and Marriage, the authors 
of the present Parody Introduced into the first twenty lines of the preceding 
" Extract," the very free statements on these subjects which appear in Chapters 
S, 12, 14, 16, 17, of the narrative of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific in the 
" Endeavour," in 17(58, derived, by the editor, Dr. John Hawkesworth, from the 
Diary of Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, -vilxo accompanied Captain Cook.— 
Ed.] 

[Lord Erskine, after dinner, inveighed bitterly against Marriage ; and 
smarting, I suppose, under the recollection of his own unsuccessful choice, con- 
cluded by saying that a wife was a tin canisler tinl to a ma7i's tall, which very 
much excited the indignation of Lady Ann Culling Smith, who was of the 
party. "Monk" Lewis took a sheet of paper, and wrote the following neat 
epigram on the subject, which he presented to Her Royal Highness [the Duchess 
of York]: - 

" Lord Erskine at marriage presuming to rail, 
Says, a trifc's a tin canister tied to one's tail ; 
And the fair Lady Ann, while the subject he carries on, 
Feels hurt at his Lordship's degrading comparison. 
But wherefore degrading? if taken aright, 
A tin canister's useful, and polished, and bright, 
And if dirt its oiiginal iiurity hide, 
'Tis the fault of tlie puppy to whom it is tied." 

—Journal o/T. Raikes:, ii. 50.— Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 139 

[Richard Payne KjMght, eminent as he was as a classical scholar and 
archaeologist, was not successful as a poet or moralist, and this is shown in an 
amusing manner in a letter from Horace Walpole to the Rev. W. Mason, dated 
22nd March, 1790, in which he declares how much he is offended and disgusted 
by Knight's " new insolent and self-conceited poem," alluding to his Progress of 
Civil Societii, — the former one being "The Landscape, a didactic poem in three 
books," 4to, pub. 1794, of which mention has already been made. 

In 1816 he was examined before a Select Committee of the House of Commons 
on the proposed purchase by the Government of the Elgin llarljles ; but his 
estimate of their value as works of the highest art was much below that of other 
artistic witnesses, such as Flaxman, Westmacott, Chantrey, B. West, and others. 
For these statements he was severely criticised in vol. 14 of the Qoxu-terlji Ruvieie, 
and in a squib, reprinted in the JVew WJdg Guide in 1819. He valued the collec- 
tion at £-25,1)00 ; Gavin Hamilton's estimate was £60,800, and Lord Aberdeen's 
.£35,000 ; for which latter sum they were obtained by the Government. He 
bequeathed his collection of ancient Bronzes, Greek Coins, &c. — valued at 
£50,000— to the British Museum. 

He represented Ludlow till 1806. He was a supporter of Fox, upon whom 
he wrote a ilonody. He was never maiTied, and he was succeeded in his fine 
property, including Downtou Castle, near Ludlow, &c., on his death in 1824, 
by his brother, Thomas Andrew Knight, one of the most scientific of horticul- 
turists, and he in turn was succeeded by his grandson, Andrew Johnes Rouse 
Boughton, second son of the late Sir W. E. Rouse Boughton, Bart., who added 
by royal license in 1856 the name of Knight to his patronymic— Ed.] 

[The drama (here nicknamed Tlie Reformed Housel-eeper), but entitled by the 
author "Misanthropy and Jiepentancc,"\\a,s produced at Drury Lane Theatre, 
Sheridan being then lessee, as " The Stranger," on the 24th March, 1798. Tlie 
following was the cast:-r/ie Stranger, J. P. Kenible ; Baron Steinfort, John 
Palmer ; Francis, R. Palmer ; Peter, Suett ; Tobias, J. Aikin ; Solomon, Wewit- 
zer; Count IFi/i(ecsere, Barrymore ; Mrs. //«;/(■/•, Mrs. Siddons ; Countess Winter- 
sen, Mrs. Goodall ; Charlotte, Miss Stuart. It was considered by competent 
authorities as one of Ke nble's finest efforts, and was performed on twenty-six 
successive nights. Some of our most eminent actors and actresses have essayed 
the principal parts. Miss O'Neill made her last appearance on the stage in the 
character of Mrs. Haller, 13th of July, 1818. 

The acting version purported to be altered from the German by Benj. 
Thompson (afterwards Count Rumford), but it is likely that all or most of 
the alterations came from the skilful hands of Sheridan, assisted by Kemble. 
The pathetic song introduced, " / have a silent sorrow here," was written 
by the former. Two other versions of the drama appeared in the year 
1798— one by A. Schinck, and the other by G. Papendick— but neither has 
been acted. 

Kotzebue tells us in his Autobiography that this play of his was acted at the 
Imperial Palace of The Ilenrdtage, St. Petersburg, nude'- his superintendence 
while manager of the Imperial Company of German Comedians, and excited 
visible emotion in the Emperor Paul. He himself saw it acted at Tobolsk 
during his exile in Siberia. The vast and splendid palace of The Hervnitagc 
is now given up to the Arts. It contains the enormous collection of Pictures 
accumulated by the Russian sovereigns (including the Houghton Gallery formed 
by Sir Robert Walpole), together with a Gallery of Sculpture, one of tlie finest 
assortments of Antique Gems in the world, a museum of Grecian and Etruscan 
Antiquities, and a library of rare Books and Manuscripts. 

An awful event took place during the performance of this play a short time 
after its production. John Palmer, an eminent comedian, while acting the 
principal character, at Liverpool, on the 2nd of August, 1798, expired on the 
stage. He had recently suffered severe domestic bereavements, wliich are sup- 
posed to have given a painful application to some passages in the third act in 
which he had to utter the words : " There is another and a better world ". In 
the first scene of the fourth act, his agitation increased ; he fell into the arms of 
the performer of the part of Baron Steinfort, and died without a gioan. A nar- 
rative of this shocking event, published immediately afterwards, by the same 
performer, disposes of the generally-received but more emotional tradition that 



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POETEY OF 



Palmer's earthly career was terminated while pronouncing the above words. 
He was in his fifty-seventh year. 

This is not the only instance of so impressive an end, for a similar death- 
stroke overtook Joseph Peterson, an excellent actor, in October, 1758, while re- 
presenting The Duke in Measure for Measure. In act 3, sc. 1, in reciting the 
words — 

" — Reason thus with life : 
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing 
That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art — " 

he dropped into the arras of Moody, who personated Claudio, and never spoke 
more ! — Ed.] 

[" One other noted character we visited— the one who, according to William 
Taylor of Norwich, was the greatest of all. This was August von Kotzebue, 
the very popular dramatist, who.se singular fate it was to live at variance with 
the great poets of his country, while he was the idol of the mob. He was at one 
time (about this time (1801) and a little later) a favourite in all Europe. One of 
his plays, The Stranger, I have seen acted in German, English, Spanish, French, 
and, I believe, also Italian. He was the pensioner of Prussia, Austria, and 
Russia. The odium produced by this circumstance, and the imputation of being 
a spy, are assigned as the cause of his assassination by [C. L. Sand] a student 
of Jena, a few years after our visit [March 3, 1819]. He was living, like Goethe, 
in a large house and in style. I drank tea with him, and found him a lively 
little man, with small black eyes. He had the manners of a petit-maUre."— 
Vrabb Robinson's Diary (1801), i. 115.— ED.] 




THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 141 



No. XXIL 

April 9, 1798. 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

SiE, — I saw, with strong approbation, your specimen 
of ancient Sapphic measure in Enghsh, which I think 
far surpasses all that Abraham Fraunce, Eichard Stany- 
hurst, or Sir Phihp Sidney himself, have produced in 
that style — I mean, of course, your sublime and beautiful 
Knife-Grinder, of which it is not too high an encomium 
to say, that it even rivals the efforts of the fine-eared 
democratic poet, Mr. Southey. But you seem not to 
be aware, that we have a genuine Sapphic measure be- 
longing to our own language, of which I now send you 
a short specimen. 

THE JACOBIN. 

I AM a hearty Jacobin, 

Who own no God, and dread no sin, 

Ready to dash through thick and thin 

For freedom : 

And when the teachers of Chalk-Farm 
Gave Ministers so much alarm. 
And preach'd that kings did only harm, 

I fee'd 'em. 

By Bedford's cut I've trimm'd my locks. 
And coal-black is my knowledge-box, 
Callous to all, except hard knocks 

Of thumpers ;, 



142 POETEY OF 

My eye a noble fierceness boasts, 
My voice as hollow as a ghost's, 
My throat oft washed by factious toasts 

In bumpers. 

Whatever is in France, is right ; 
Terror and blood are my delight ; 
Parties with us do not excite 

Enough rage. 

Our boasted laws I hate and curse, 
Bad from the first, by age grown worse, 
I pant and sigh for univers-* 

al suffrage, 

Wakefield^ I love — adore Hokne Tooke, 
With pride on Jones ^ and Thelwall^ look. 
And hope that they, by hook or crook. 

Will prosper. 

But they deserve the worst of ills, 
And all th' abuse of all our quills. 
Who form'd of strong and gagn'ing Bills * 

A cross pair. 

Extinct since then each speaker's fire. 
And silent ev'ry daring lyre,t 
Dum-founded they whom I would hire 

To lecture. 

* This division of the word is in the true spirit of the English 
as well as the ancient Sapphic. See the " Counter-Scuffle," 
" Coimter-Rat," and other poems in this style. 

t There is a doubt, whether this word should not have been 
written liar. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 143 

Tied up, alas ! is ev'ry tongue 
On which conviction nightly hung,'^ 
And Thelwall looks, though yet but young, 

A spectre.^ 

B. 0. B. 

* These words, of conviction and hanging, liaAe so ominous a 
sound, it is rather odd they were chosen. 

[(1) The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield wrote several pamphlets against governnient, 
of which no notice was taken, until his Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff appeared, 
when the Attorney-General instituted a prosecution against him. He was found 
guilty and imprisoned ; during which imprisonment a subscription of £3000 among 
his friends sujiported his wife and family very comfortably. — Ed.] 

1(2) John Gale Jones was an active political agitator for many years. In ISIO, 
he was the conductor of the debating club, denominated the "British Forum," 
which at one of its meetings discussed the priiiiriety of tlie exclusion of strangers 
from the House of Commons during the debates on tlie Walcheren Expedition. 
For his observations the House, disregarding his apology, committed him to 
Newgate. — Ed.] 

[(3) " John Thelwall left his shop (that of a silk mercer) to be one of the Re- 
formers of the age. After Ihs acquittal he went about the country lecturing. 
Sometimes he was attended by numerous admirers, but more frequently hooted 
and pelted by the mob. In order to escape prosecution for sedition, he took as 
his subject Greek and Roman history, and had ingenuity enough to give such a 
colouring to events and characters, as to render the application to living persons 
and present events an exciting mental exercise. I heard one or two of these 
lectures, and thought very differently of him then from what I thought after- 
wards. When, however, he found his popularity on the wane, and more strin- 
gent laws had been passed, to which he individually gave occasion, he came to 
the prudent resolution of abandoning his vagrant habits, and leading a farmer's 
life in a beautiful place near Brecon. . . . He was an amiable man in private 
life, an affectionate husband, and a fond father. He altogether mistoolc his 
talents— he told me without reserve that he believed he should establish his 
name among the epic poets of England ; and it is a curious thing considering 
his own views that he thought the establishment of Christianity, and tlie British 
Constitution, very appropriate subjects for his poem. . . . Thelwall, unlike 
Hardy, had the weakness of vanity; but he was a perfectly honest man, and 
had a power of declamation which qualified him to be a mob orator. He used 
to say that if he were at the gallows with liberty to address the people for half- 
an-hour, he should not fear the result ; he was sure he could excite them to a 
rescue. I became acquainted with him soon after his acquittal, and never ceased 
to respect hitn for his sincerity, though I did not think highly of his understand- 
ing."— Croii* Robinson's Diary, 1790 and 1799.— Ed.] 

[(4) These "Gagging Bills," of 1796, required that notice should be given to 
the magistrate of any public meeting to be held on political subjects ; he was 
authorized to be present, and empowered to seize those guilty of sedition on the 
spot ; and a second offence against the act was punishable with transportation. 
So exasperated were the Opposition with this measure that Fox and a large 
part of the minority withdrew altogether for a considerable time from the 
House. — Ed] 

[(5) The hero of the above song was Charles Howard, eleventh Duke of Nor- 
folk, who both as a member of the House of Commons (while Earl of Surrey), 
and afterwards as a peer, was one of Fox's most strenuous supporters. Sir 
N. Wraxall thus describes him : " Nature, which cast him in her coarsest 
mould, had not bestowed on him any of the external insignia of high descent. 
His person, large, muscular, and clumsy, was destitute of grace or dignity, 



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POETEY OF 



though he possessed much activity. At a time when men of every description 
wore hair-powder and a queue, he had the courage to cut his hair short, and to 
renounce powder, which he never used except when going to court. In his 
youth he led a most licentious life, having frequently passed the whole night in 
excesses of every kind, and even lain down, when intoxicated, occasionally to 
sleep in the streets, or on a block of wood. In cleanliness he was negligent to 
so great a degree that he rarely made use of water for the purpose of bodily re- 
freshment and comfort. Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a 
martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its 
relief, "Pray, my lord," said he, "did you ever try a clean shirt?" It must not 
be forgotten, however, that h« was a munificent patron of literature, for he 
defrayed the entire expense of printing Taylor's Translation of Plato, 5 vols. 
4to. ; Dalla way's History of Sussex, 2 vols. 4to.; and Duncunib's History of Here- 
fordshire, '/! vols. The initials B. O. B. refer to Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Adair, 
who is often alluded to in these pages.— Ed.] 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 145 



No. xxiir. 

April 16, 1798. 
We cannot better explain to our readers the design 
of the poem from which the following extracts are 
taken, than by borrowing the expressions of the author, 
Mr. HiGGiNS, of Sf. Mary Axe, in the letter which ac- 
companied the manuscript. 

We must premise, that we had found ourselves called 
upon to remonstrate with Mr. H. on the freedom of 
some of the positions laid down in his other didactic 
poem, the "Progress of Man"; and had in the course 
of our remonstrance hinted something to the disadvan- 
tage of the new princiipTes which are now afloat in the 
world, and which are, in our opinion, working so much 
prejudice to the happiness of mankind. To this Mr. H. 
takes occasion to reply — * 

" What you call the new prind'ples are, in fact, nothing 
less than new. They are the principles of primeval nature, 
the system of original and unadulterated man. 

[* These observations are directed against Godwin's work 
on " Political Justice," which, on its first appearance, excited 
extraordinary attention. His aim was to represent the whole 
systera of society as radically and essentially wrong, and to 
extirpate all those principles which uphold its present constitu- 
tion. The existence of the Deity is spoken of as an hypothesis, 
and the ethics are worthy of the religion. Holceoft reviewed 
it in the " Monthly Eeview," but was doubtful whether to 
praise or blame it.— Ed.] 

["I noticed (says Crabb Eobinson in 1811) the infinite 
superiority of Godwin over the French writers in moral feel- 
ing and tendency. I had learned to hate Helvetius and Mira- 
beau, and yet retamed my love for Godwin. This was agreed 
to as a just sentiment." — En.] 

10 



146 POETRY OF 

" If you mean by my addiction to new principles that 
the object which I have in view in my larger work 
[meaning the ' Progress of Man ' ] and in the several 
other concomitant and subsidiary didactic poems which are 
necessary to complete my plan, is to restore this first, 
and pure simplicity; to rescue and to recover the in- 
teresting nakedness of human nature, by ridding her 
of the cumbrous establishments which the folly, and 
pride, and self-interest of the worst part of our species 
have heaped upon her;^you are right. Such is my 
object. I do not disavow it. Nor is it mine alone. 
There are abundance of abler hands at work upon it. 
Encyclopedias, Treatises, Novels, Magazines, Reviews, and 
New Annual Registers, have, as you are well aware, 
done their part with activity and with effect. It re- 
mained to bring the heavy artillery of a didactic poem 
to bear upon the same object. 

" If I have selected your paper as the channel for 
conveying my labours to the XDublic, it was not because 
I was unaware of the hostility of your principles to 
mine, of the bigotry of your attachment to ' things as 
they are,' but because, I will fairly own, I found some 
sort of cover and disguise necessary for securing the 
favourable reception of my sentiments ; the usual pre- 
texts of humanity, and philanthropy, and fine feeling, 
by which we have for some time obtained a passport 
to the hearts and understandings of men, being now 
worn out or exploded. I could not choose but smile 
at my success in the first instaiice, in inducing yoti to 
adopt my poem as your own. 

"But you have called for an explanation of these 
principles of ours, and you have a right to obtain it. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 147 

Our first principle is, then — the reverse of the trite 
and dull maxim of Pope — ' Whatever is, is right'. We 
contend, that ' Whatever is, is torong' ; that institutions, 
civil and religious, that social order (as it is called 
in your cant) and regular government, and law, and I 
know not what other fantastic inventions, are but so 
many cramps and fetters on the free agency of man's 
natural intellect and moral sensibility ; so many badges 
of his degradation from the primal purity and excellence 
of his nature. 

"Our second principle is, the ^eternal and absolute 
perfectibility of man '. We contend, that if, as is demon- 
strable, we have risen from a level with the cabbages 
of the field to our present comparatively intelligent and 
dignified state of existence, by the mere exertion of 
our own energies ; we should, if these energies were not re- 
pressed and subdued by the operation of prejudice, 
and folly, by King-Craft and Priest-Craft, and the 
other evils incident to what is called civilized society, 
continue to exert and expand ourselves in a proportion 
infinitely greater than anything of which we yet have 
any notion : — in a ratio hardly capable of being cal- 
culated by any science of which we are now masters : 
but which would in time raise man from his present 
biped state to a rank more worthy of his endowments 
and aspirations ; to a rank in which he would be, as it 
were, all Mind ; would enjoy unclouded perspicacity and 
perpetual vitality ; feed on oxygene, and never die, but 
by his oivn consent. 

" But though the poem of the Progress of Man 
alone would be sufficient to teach this system and 
enforce these doctrines, the whole practical effect of 



148 POETEY OF 

them cannot be expected to be produced, but by the 
gradual perfecting of each of the subhmer sciences ; — • 
at the husk and shell of which we are now nibbling and 
at the kernel whereof, in our present state, we cannot 
hope to arrive. These several sciences will be the 
subjects of the several auxiliary Didactic Poems which 
I have now in hand (one of which, entitled The Loves 
OF THE Triangles, I herewith transmit to you), and for 
the better arrangement and execution of which, I 
beseech you to direct your bookseller to furnish me with 
a handsome Chambers's Dictionary ; in order that I may 
be enabled to go through the several articles alphabeti- 
cally, beginning with Abracadabra, under the first letter, 
and going down to Zodiac, which is to be found under 
the last. 

" I am persuaded that there is no science, however 
abstruse, nay, no trade or manufacture, which may not 
be taught by a didactic poem. In that before you, an 
attempt is made (not unsuccessfully, I hope) to enlist the 
imagination under the banners of Geometry. Botany I found 
done to my hands. And though the more rigid and un- 
bending stiffness of a mathematical subject does not 
admit of the same appeals to the warmer passions, 
which naturally arise out of the sexual (or, as I have 
heard several worthy gentlewomen of my acquaintance, 
who delight much in the poem to which I allude, term 
it, by a slight misnomer no way difficult to be accounted 
for — the sensual) system of Linngeus ; — yet I trust that 
the range and variety of illustration with which I have 
endeavoured to ornament and enlighten the arid truths 
of Euclid and Algebra, will be found to have smoothed 
the road of Demonstration, to have softened the rugged 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 149 

features of Elementary Propositions, and, as it were, to 
have strewed the Asses' Bridge with flowers." 

Such is the account which Mr. Higgins gives of his 
own undertaking, and of the motives which have led him 
to it. For our parts, though we have not the same 
sanguine persuasion of the absolute perfedihilitii of our 
species, and are in truth liable to the imputation of being 
more satisfied with things as they are, than Mr. Higgins 
and his associates ; — yet, as we are, in at least the same 
proportion, less convinced of the practical influence of 
didactic poems, we apprehend little danger to our 
readers' morals from laying before them Mr. Higgins's 
doctrine in its most fascinating shape. The poem 
abounds, indeed, with beauties of the most striking kind, 
— various and vivid imagery, bold and unsparing imper- 
sonifications ; and similitudes and illustrations brought 
from the most ordinary and the most extraordinary 
occurrences of nature — from history and fable — appeal- 
ing equally to the heart and to the understanding, and 
calculated to make the subject of which the poem 
professes to treat rather amusing than intelligible. We 
shall be agreeably surprised to hear that it has assisted 
any young student at either University in his mathe- 
matical studies. 

We need hardly add, that the plates illustrative of this 
poem (the engravings of which would have been too 
expensive for our publication) are to be found in Euclid's 
Elements, and other books of a similar tendency. 



150 POETEY OF 

LOVES OF THE TEIANGLES* 

ARGUMENT OF THE FIBST CANTO. 

Warning to the profane not to approach — Nymphs and Deities 
of Mathematical Mythology — Cyclois of a pensive turn — 
Pendulums, 6n the contrary, playful — and why? — Senti- 
mental Union of the Naiads and Hydrostatics — Marriage of 
Euclid and Algebra. — Pulley the emblem of Mechanics — 
Optics of a licentious disposition — distinguished by her tele- 
scope and green spectacles. — Hyde-Park Gate on a Sunday 
morning — Cockneys — Coaches. — Didactic Poetry — Nonsensia 
— Love delights in Angles or Corners — Theory of Fluxions 
explamed — Trochais, the Nymph of the Wheel — Smoke-Jack 
described — Personification of elementary or culinary Fire. — 
Little Jack Homer — Story of Cinderella — Rectangle, a Magi- 
cian, educated by Plato and Menecmus— m love with Three 
Curves at the same time — served by Gins, or Genii — trans- 
forms himself into a Cone — the Three Curves requite his 
passion — Description of them — Parabola, Hyperbola, and 
Ellipsis — Asymptotes — Conjugated Axes. — Illustrations — 
Rewbell, Barras, and Lepaux, the three virtuous Directors — 
Macbeth and the Three Witches — the Three Fates — the 
Three Graces — Kmg Lear and his Three Daughters — Derby 
Diligence — Catherine Wheel. — Catastrophe of Mr. Gmgham, 
with his Wife and Three Daughters overturned in a One-horse 
Chaise — Dislocation and Contusion two kindred Fiends — Mail 
Coaches — Exhortation to Drivers to be careful — Genius of the 
Post-Office — Invention of Letters — Digamma — Double 
Letters — Eemarkable Direction of one — Hippona the God- 
dess of Hack-horses — Parameter and Abscissa unite to over- 
power the Ordinate, who retreats down the Axis-Major, and 
forms himself m a Square — Isosceles, a Giant — Dr. Ehomboides 
— Fifth Proposition, or Asses' Bridge — Bridge of Lodi — 
Buonaparte — Eaft and Windmills — Exhortation to the 
recovery of our Freedom — Conclusion. 

[* Written in ridicule of Dr. Darwin's Loves of the Plants.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 151 

THE LOVES OF THE TEIANGLES. 
3V #litthcmaticvil vtnb l^hilosophicnl l3otm, 

INSCRIBED TO DR. DARWIN. 

CANTO I. 
Stay your rude steps, or e'er your feet invade 
The Muses' haunts, ye sons of War and Trade ! 
Nor you, ye legion fiends of Church and Law, 
Pollute these pages with unhallow'd paw ! 
Debased, corrupted, grovelling, and confined, 5 

No Definitions touch y/owr senseless mind ; 
To you no Postulates prefer their claim. 
No ardent Axiobis your dull souls inflame ; 
For you no Tangents touch, no Angles meet, 
No Circles join in osculation sweet ! 10 

For vie, ye Cissoids, round my temples bend 
Your wandering curves ; ye Conchoids extend ; 

Ver. 1 — 4. Imitated from the introductory couplet to the 
Economy of Vegetation : 

" Stay your rude steps, whose throbbing breasts infold 
The legion fiends of glory and of gold ". 
This sentiment is here expanded into four lines. 

Ver. 6. Definition — A distinct notion explaining the genesis 
of a thing. — Wolfius. 

Ver. 7. Postulate — A self-evident proposition. 

Ver. 8. Axiom — An indemonstrable truth. 

Ver. 9. Tangents — So called from touching, because they 
touch circles, and never cut them. 

Ver. 10. Circles — See Chambers's Dictionary, article "Circle". 

Ver. 10. Osculation — For the osculation, or kissing of circles 
and other curves, see Huygens, who has veiled this delicate 
and inflammatory siibject in the decent obscurity of a learned 
language. 

Ver. 11. Cissois — A curve supposed to resemble the sprig of 
ivy, from which it has its name, and therefore peculiarly 
adapted to poetry. 

Ver. 12. Conchois, or Conchylis — A most beautiful and pictur- 



152 POETRY OF 

Let playful Pendules quick vibration feel, 

While silent Cyclois rests upon her wheel ; 

Let Hydeostatics, simpering as they go, 15 

Lead the light Naiads on fantastic toe ; 

Let shrill Acoustics tune the tiny lyre ; 

"With Euclid sage fair Algebra conspire ; 

The obedient pulley strong Mechanics ply. 

And wanton Optics roll the melting eye ! 20 

I see the fair fantastic forms appear. 
The flaunting drapery, and the languid leer ; 
Fair sylphish forms — who, tall, erect, and slim. 
Dart the keen glance, and stretch the length of limb ; 
To viewless harpings weave the meanless dance, 25 

Wave the gay wreath, and titter as they prance. 

Such rich confusion charms the ravish'd sight. 
When vernal Sabbaths to the Park invite. 

esque curve ; it bears a fanciful resemblance to a conch, shell. 
The conchois is capable of infinite extension, and presents a 
striking analogy between the animal and mathematical creation 
— every individual of this species containing within itself a 
series of young conchoids for several generations, in the same 
manner as the Aphides and other insect tribes are observed to do. 

Ver. 15. Hydrostatics — Water has been supposed, by several 
of our philosophers, to be capable of the passion of love. Some 
later experiments appear to favour this idea. Water, when 
pressed by a moderate degree of heat, has been observed to 
simper, or simmer, as it is more usually called. The same does 
not hold true of any other element. 

Ver. 17. Acoustics — The doctrine or theory of somid. 

Ver. 18. Euclid and Algebra — The loves and nuptials of these 
two interesting personages, forming a considerable episode in 
the third canto, are purposely omitted here. 

Ver. 19. Pulley — So called from oiu- Saxon word to pull, 
signifying to pull or draw. 

Ver. 23. Fair sylphish forms — Vide modern prmts of nymphs 
and shepherds dancing to nothmg at all. 

Ver. 27. Such rich confusion — Imitated from the following 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 153 

Mounts the thick dust, the coaches crowd along, 
Presses round Grosvenor Gate th' impatient throng ; 30 
White-musHned misses and mammas are seen. 
Linked with gay cockneys, ghttering o'er the green : 
The rising breeze unnumbered charms displays. 
And the tight ankle strikes th' astonished gaze. 

But chief, thou Nurse of the Didactic Muse, 35 

Divine Nonsensia, all thy soul infuse ; 
The charms of Secants and of Tam/ents tell, 
How Loves and Graces in an Anr/le dwell ; 
How slow progressive Points protract the Line, 
As pendent spiders spin the filmy twine ; 40 

How lengthened Lines, impetuous sweeping round. 
Spread the wide Plane, and mark its circling bound ; 

genteel and sprightly lines in the first canto of the " Loves of 
the Plants " : 

" So bright its folding canopy withdrawn, 
Glides the gilt landau o'er the velvet lawn, 
Of beanx and belles displays the glittering throng, 
And soft airs fan them as they glide along ". 

Ver. 38. Angle — Gratus puellse risus ab Angulo. — Hor. 

Ver, 39. How slow i)rogressive Points — The Author has reserved 
the pictiu'esque imagery which the tJieory of fluxions naturally 
suggested for his "Algebraic Garden," where the fluents are 
described as rolling with an even current between a margin of 
curves of the higher order over a pebbly channel, mlaid with 
difl^erential calculi. 

In the following six lines he has confined himself to a strict 
explanation of thetheorj', according to which lines are supposed 
to be generated by the motion of points, planes by the lateral 
motion of lines, and solids from planes, by a similar process. 

Qua're — Whether a practical application of this theory would 
not enable us to account for the genesis or original formation of 
space itself, in the same manner in which Dr. Darwin has 
traced the whole of the organized creation to his six filaments 
— Vide Zoonomia. We may conceive the whole of our present 
universe to have been originally concentred in a single point ; 



154 POETKY OF 

How Planes, their substance with their motion grown, 
Form the huge Guhe, the Cylinder, the Gone. 

we ixiay conceive this primeval point, or pundum saliens of the 
universe, evolvin^ itself by its own energies, to have moved 
forward in a right line, ad infinitum, till it grew tired ; after 
which the right line which it had generated would begin to put 
itself in motion in a lateral direction, describing an area of 
infinite extent. This area, as soon as it became conscious of 
its own existence, would begin to ascend or descend, according 
as its specific gravity might determine it, forming an innnense 
solid space filled with vacuiim, and capable of containing the 
present existing universe. 

Space being thus obtained, and presenting a suitable nidus, 
or receptacle for the generation of chaotic matter, an immense 
deposit of it would gradiially be accumulated ; after which, the 
filament of fire being produced in the chaotic mass by an idio- 
nyncrasy, or self-formed habit, analogous to fermentation, explo- 
sion would take place ; suns would be shot from the central 
chaos ; planets from suns ; and satellites from planets. In this 
state of things the filament of organization would begin to exert 
itself in those independent masses which, in proportion to their 
bulk, exposed the greatest surface to the action of light and heat. 
This filament, after an infinite series of ages, would begm to 
ramify, and its viviparous offspring would diversify their forms 
and habits, so as to accommodate themselves to the various 
incunabula which Nature had prepared for them. Upon this 
view of things it seems highly probable that the first effort of 
Nature terminated in the production of vegetables, and that 
these, being abandoned to their own energies, by degrees 
detached themselves from the surface of the earth, and supplied 
themselves with wings or feet, according as their different pro- 
X^ensities determined them in favour of aerial and terrestrial 
existence. Others, by an inherent disposition to society and 
civilization, and by a stronger effort of volition, would become 
men. These, in time, would restrict themselves to the use of 
their hind feet; their tails would gradually rub off by sitting 
m their caves or huts, as soon as they arrived at a domesti- 
cated state ; they would invent language and the use of fire, 
with our present and hitherto imperfect system of society. 
In the meanwhile, the Fuci and Algce, with the Corallines 
and Madrepores, would transform themselves into fish, and 
would gradiially populate all the submarme portion of the 
globe. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 155 

Lo ! where the chimney's sooty tube ascends, 45 

The' fair Trochais from the corner bends ! 
Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark 
The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark ; 
Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between, 
Her much-loved Smoke-Jack glimmers thro' the scene ; 50 
Mark, how his various parts together tend. 
Point to one purpose, — in one object end ; 
The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow, 
Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow, 
While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below ; 55 
The conscious fire with bickering radiance burns, 
Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns. 

So youthful Horner rolled the roguish eye, 
Cull'd the dark plum from out his Christmas pie, 
And cried, in self -applause — "How good a boy 
am I ". 60 

So she, sad victim of domestic spite, 
Fair Cinderella, pass'd the wintry night. 
In the lone chimney's darksome nook immured, 
Her form disfigured, and her charms obscured. 
Sudden her godmother appears in sight, 65 

Lifts the charmed rod, and chants the mystic rite. 
The chanted rite the maid attentive hears, 

Ver. 46. Trochais — The Nympli of the "Wheel, supposed to be 
in love with Smoke-Jack. 

Ver. 56. The conscious fire — The sylphs and genii of the 
different elements have a variety of innocent occupations 
assigned them ; those of fire are supposed to divert themselves 
with writing Kunkel in phosphorus. — See Economy of Vegeta- 
tion : 

" Or mark, with shining letters, Kunkel's name 
In the pale fhosphor''s self-consuming flame". 



156 POETRY OF 

And feels new ear-rings deck her listening ears ; 

While 'midst her towering tresses, aptly set, 

Shines bright, with quivering glance, the smart 

aigrette ; 70 

Brocaded silks" the splendid dress complete, 
And the Glass Slipper grasps her fairy feet. 
Six cock-tailed mice transport her to the ball. 
And liveried lizards wait upon her call. 
Alas ! that partial Science should approve 
The sly Ebctangle's too licentious love ! 
For three bright nymphs, &c., &c. 

{To he continued.) 



Ver. 68. Listening ears — Listening, and therefore peculiarly 
suited to a pair of diamond ear-rings. See the description of 
Nebuchadnezzar in his transformed state — 

" Nor flattery's self can pierce his pendent ears ". 

In poetical diction, a person is said to '■^breathe the blue air," 
and to ^^ drink the hoarse ivave!" — not that the colour of the 
sky or the noise of the water has any reference to drmking or 
breathing, but because the poet obtains the advantage of thus 
describing his subject under a double relation, in the same 
manner in which material objects present themselves to our 
different senses at the same time. 

Ver. 73. Cock-tailed mice — Coctilibus Muris. Ovid.— -Theve 
is reason to believe that the murine, or mouse species, were 
anciently much more numerous than at the present day. It 
appears from the sequel of the line, that Semiramis surrounded 
the city of Babylon with a number of these animals. 

Dicitur altam 
Coctilibus Muris cinxisse Semiramis urbem. 

It is not easy at present to form any conjecture with respect 
to the end, whether of ornament or defence, which they could 
be supposed to answer. I should be inclined to believe, that in 
this instance the mice were dead, and that so vast a coUection 
of them must have been hirnished by way of tribute, to free the 



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157 



comitry from these destriictive animals. This superabundance 
of the murine race must have been owing to their immense 
fecundity, and to the comparatively tardy reproduction of the 
feline species. The traces of this disproportion are to be found 
in the early history of every country.- — The ancient laws of 
Wales estimate a cat at the price of as much corn as would be 
sufi&cient to cover her, if she were suspended by the tail with 
her fore-feet touching the ground. — See Howel Dha. — In Ger- 
many, it is recorded that an army of rats, a larger animal of the 
mils tribe, was employed as the ministers of divine vengeance 
against a feudal tyrant ; and the commercial legend of our own 
Whittington might probably be traced to an equally authentic 
origin. 




158 POETRY OF 



No. XXIV. 

April 23, 1798. 
THE LOVES OF THE TEIANGLES. 

^ ^Jttathcinatical anb iHhilosopltical |Jocm. 

(Continued.) 

CANTO I. 

Alas ! that partial Science should approve 75 

The sly Eectangle's too licentious love ! 

For tJiJ'ee bright nymphs the wily wizard burns ;^ 

Three bright-eyed nymphs requite his flame by turns. 

Strange force of magic skill ! combined of yore 

With Plato's science and Menecmus' lore. 80 

In Afric's school, amid those sultry sands 

High on its base where Pompey's pillar stands, 

This learnt the Seer ; and learnt, alas ! too well. 

Each scribbled talisman, and smoky spell : 

Ver. 76. Rectangle — " A figure which has one angle, or more, 
of ninety degrees ". Johnson's Dictionary. — It here means a right- 
angled triangle, which is therefore incapable of having more 
than one angle of ninety degrees, but which may, according to 
our author's Prosopopoiia, be supposed to be in love with three, 
or any greater number of nymphs. 

Ver. 80. Plato's and Menecmus' lore — Proclus attributes the 
discovery of the conic sections to Plato, but obsciu-ely. Era- 
tosthenes seems to adjudge it to Menecmus. " Neque Menecmeos 
necesse crit in cono secare ternarios." (Vide Montucla.) Fi'om 
Greece they were carried to Alexandria, where (according to 
our author's beautiful fiction) Rectangle either did or might 
learn magic. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 159 

"What muttered charms, what soul-subduing arts, 85 

Pell Zatanai to his sons imparts. 

Gins — black and huge ! who in Dom-Daniel's cave 
"Writhe your scorched limbs on sulphur's azui'e wave ; 
Or, shivering, yell amidst eternal snows, 
"Where cloud-capp'd Caf protrudes his granite toes; 90 
(Bound by his will, Jiukeas fabled king, 
Lord of Aladdin's lamp and mystic ring.) 
Gins ! ye remember ! — for your toil conveyed 
"Whate'er of drugs the powerful charm could aid ; 
Air, earth, and sea ye searched, and where below 95 

Planie embryo lavas, young volcanoes glow, — 

Ver. 86. Zatanai — Supposed to be the same with Satan. — 
Vide the New Arabian Nights, translated by Gazette, author of 
*'Le Diahle amoureux'\ 

Ver. 87. Gins — the Eastern name for Genii. — Vide Tales of 
ditto. 

Ver. 87. Dom-Daniel — a sub-marine palace near Tunis, where 
Zatanai usually held his court. — Vide Ncio Arabian Nights. 

Ver. 88. Suliohw — A substance which, when cold, reflects 
the yellow rays, and is therefore said to be yellow. When 
raised to a temperature at which it attracts oxygen e (a process 
usually called burning), it emits a blue flame. This may be 
beautifully exemphfied, and at a moderate expense, by ignitmg 
those fasciculi of brimstone matches, frequently sold (so fre- 
quently, indeed, as to form one of the London cries) by women 
of an advanced age, in this metropolis. They will be foiuid to 
yield an ar.ure, or blue light. 

Ver. 90. Caf — the Indian Caucasus. — Vide Baillfs Lettres sur 
I' Atlantide, in which he proves that this was the native country 
of Gog and Magog (now resident in Guildhall), as well as of the 
Peris, or fairies, of the Asiatic romances. 

Ver. 91. Jucf.ma^s fabled king — Mr. Higgins does not mean to 
deny that Solomon was really king of Judiea. The epithet 
fabled applies to that empire over the Genii, which the retro- 
spective generosity of the Arabian fabulists has bestowed upon 
this monarch. 

Ver. 96. Young volcanoes — The genesis of burning mountains 
was never, till lately, well explained. Those with which we are 



160 POETRY OF 

Gins ! ye beheld appall'd th' enchanter's hand 

Wave in dark air th' Hijpothenusal wand ; 

Saw him the mystic Circle trace, and wheel 

"With head erect, and far-extended heel ; lOQ 

Saw him, with speed that mocked the dazzled eye, 

Self-whirled, in quick gyrations eddying fly : 

Till done the potent spell — behold him grown 

Fair Venus' emblem — the Phoenician Cone. 

best acquainted are certainly not viviparous ; it is therefore 
probable, that there exists, in the centre of the earth, a con- 
siderable reservoir of their eggs, which, during the obstetrical 
convulsions of general earthquakes, produce new volcanoes. 

Ver. 100. Far-extended heel — The personification of Bedangley 
besides answering a poetical purpose, was necessary to illus- 
trate Mr. HiGGiNs's philosophical opinions. The ancient 
mathematicians conceived that a cone was generated by the 
revolution of a triangle ; but this, as our author justly observes, 
would be impossible, without supposing m the triangle that 
expansive nisus, discovered by Blumenbach, and improved by 
Darwin, which is peciiliar to animated matter, and which alone 
explains the whole mystery of organization. Our enchanter sits 
on the ground, with his heels stretched out, his head erect, his 
wand (or hy23othenuse) resting on the extremities of his feet and 
the tip of his nose (as is finely expressed in the engraving in the 
original work), and revolves upon his bottom with great velocity. 
His skin, by magical means, has acquired an indefinite power of 
expansion, as well as that of assimilating to itself all the azote 
of the air, which he decomposes by expiration from his lungs — 
an inxmense quantity, and which, in our present miimproved 
and imeconomical mode of breathing, is quite thrown away. 
By this simple process the transformation is very naturahy 
aecomited for. 

Ver. 104. Phmnician Cone — It was imder this shape that 
Venus was worshipped in Phoenicia. Mr. Higgins thinks it 
was the Venus Urania, or Celestial Venus ; m aUusion to which, 
the Phoenician grocers first introduced the practice of preserving" 
sugar-loaves in blue or sky-coloiu-ed paper — he also believes 
that the conical form of the original grenadier's cap was typical 
of the loves of Mars and Venus. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 161 

Triumphs the Seer, and now secure observes 105 

The kindhng passions of the rival Curves, 

And first, the fair Parabola behold. 
Her timid arms, with virgin blush, unfold ! 
Though, on one focus fixed, her eyes betray 
A heart that glows with love's resistless sway ; 110 

Though, climbing oft, she strives with bolder grace 
Bound his tall neck to clasp her fond embrace. 
Still ere she reach it, from his polished side 
Her trembling hands in devious Tanr/enfs glide. 

Not thus Hyperbola; — with subtlest art 115 

The blue-eyed wanton plays her changeful part ; 
Quick as her conjugated axes move 
Through every posture of luxurious love, 
Her sportive limbs with easiest grace expand ; 
Her charms unveiled provoke the lover's hand ; 120 

Unveiled, except in many a filmy ray, 
Where light Asymjptotes o'er her bosom play, 
Nor touch her glowing skin, nor intercept the day. 

Yet why, Ellipsis, at thy fate repine ? 
More lasting bliss, securer joys are thine. 125 

Ver. 107. Parabola— Th.e curve described by projectiles of 
all sorts, as bombs, shuttlecocks, &c. 

Ver. 115. Hyperbola — Not figuratively speaking, as in rhetoric, 
but mathematically ; and therefore blue-eyed. 

Ver. 122. Asymptotes — " Lines, which though they may ap- 
proach still nearer together till they are neai'er than the least 
assignable distance, yet being still produced infinitely, will never 
meet ". — Johnson's Dictionary. 

Ver. 124. Ellipsis— A ciu've, the revolution of which on its 
axis produces an eUipsoid, or solid resembling the eggs of birds, 
particularly those of the gallinaceous tribe. Ellipsis is the only 
curve that embraces the cone. 

11 



162 POETRY OF 

Though to each fair his treacherous wish may stray, 
Though each, in turn, may seize a transient sway, 
'Tis thine with mild coercion to restrain, 
Twine round his strugghng heart, and bind with endless 
chain. 

Thus, happy France ! in thy regenerate land, 130 

Where Taste with Eapine saunters hand in hand ; 
"Where, nursed in seats of innocence and bliss, 
Eefoem greets Tebbor wdth fraternal kiss ; 
Where mild Philosophy first taught to scan 
The wrongs of Providence, and rujhts of Man ; 135 

Where Memory broods o'er Freedom's earlier scene, 
The Lantern bright, and brighter GuiUotive ; 
Three gentle swains evolve their longing arms, 
And woo the young Eepublic's virgin charms ; 
And though proud Barras with the fair succeed, 140 

Though not in vain th' Attorney Rewhell plead, 
Oft doth th' impartial nymph their love forego, 
To clasp thy crooked shoulders, blest Lepaux ! 

So, with dark dirge athwart the blasted heath, 
Three Sister Witches hailed the appalled Macbeth. 145 

So, the Three Fates beneath grim Pluto's roof. 
Strain the dun warp, and weave the murky woof ; 
'Till deadly Atropos with fatal shears 
Slits the thin promise of the expected years. 
While 'midst the dungeon's gloom or battle's din, 150 
Ambition's victims perish, as they spin. 

Thus, the Three Graces on the Idalian green 
Bow with deft homage to Cythera's Queen ; 



THE AXTI-JACOBIN, 163 

Her polished arms with pearly bracelets deck, 

Part her light locks, and bare her ivory neck ; 155 

Eound her fair form ethereal odom'S throw, 

And teach th' unconscious zephyrs where to blow. 

Floats the thin gauze, and glittering as they play, 

The bright folds flutter in phlogistic day, 

So, with his daughters Three, th' unsceptered Lear 160 
Heaved the loud sigh, and poured the glistering tear : 
His daughters Three, save one alone, conspire 
(Rich in his gifts) to spurn their generous sire ; 
Bid the rude storm his hoary tresses drench, 
Stint the spare meal, the hundred knights retrench ; 165 
Mock his mad sorrow, and with altered mien 
Een ounce the daughter, and assert the queen. 
A father's griefs his feeble frame convulse, 
Eack his white head, and fire his feverous pulse ; 
Till kind Cordeha soothes his soul to rest, 170 

And folds the parent-monarch to her breast. 

Thus some fair spinster grieves in wild affright. 
Vexed with dull megrim, or vertigo light ; 
Pleased round the fair, Three dawdhng doctors stand, 
Wave the white wig, and stretch the asking hand, 175 
State the grave doubt, the nauseous draught decree. 
And all receive, though none deserve, a fee. 

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbouro,* glides 
The Derby dilly, carrying Three Insidbs. 

[* " Komantic Asliboiu^n." The road clown Ashbourn Hill 
winds in front of Ashbonrn Hall, then the residence of the Eev. 
Mr. Leigh, who married a relation of Canning's, and to whom 
the latter was a frequent visitor. A clever parodical application 
of this couplet was made by O'Connell to Lord Stanley's sec- 
tion of a party of six, who wished to hold the balance of power, 



164 POETRY OF 

One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease, 180 

With folded arms, propt back, and outstretched knees ; 
While the pressed Bodldn, punched and squeezed to 

death, 
Sweats in the' midmost place, and scolds, and pants for 

breath.* 

{To he continued.) 

dm-ing Peel's short administration in 1835. He altered it to 
" The Derby Dilly," carrying six insides. — See the Greville 
Memoirs, vol. 3, pp. 236, &c.— Ed.] 

[* Thus sings Dr. Darwin of the Loves of the Plants : 
" Tivo brother swams, of Collins' gentle name, 
The same their features, and their forms the same, 
With rival love for fair CoUinia sigh. 
Knit the dark brow, and roll the misteady eye. 
With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, 
And soothes with smiles the jealous pair by turns. 
"Woo'd with long care, Curcuma, cold and shy, 
Meets her fond husband with averted eye. 
Four beardless j'ouths the obdurate beauty move 
With soft attentions of Platonic love." — Ed.] 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 165 



No. XXV. 

April 30, 1798. 
BEISSOT'S GHOST.* 

As at the Shakespeare Tavern dining, 

O'er the well replenished board 
Patriotic chiefs reclining, 

Quick and large libations poured ; 
While, in fancy, great and glorious, 

'Midst the democratic storm, 
Fox's crew, with shout victorious, 

Drank to Radical Reform ; 

Sudden, up the staircase sounding. 

Hideous yells and shrieks were heard ; 
Then, each guest with fear confounding, 

A grim train of Ghosts appeared : 
Each a head, with anguish gasping, 

(Himself a trunk deformed with gore). 
In his hand, terrific, clasping. 

Stalked across the wine-stained floor. 

On them gleamed the lamp's blue lustre, 
When stern Bbissot's grizzly shade 

His sad bands was seen to muster, 
And his bleeding troops arrayed. 

[* Brissot was one of the first movers in the outbreak of the 
French Revolution, and with twenty other Girondists suffered 
death under the guillotine, October 30, 1793. He was one of 
the most virtuous as well as most accomplished litterateurs of 
the time. — Ed.] 



166 POETRY OF 

Through the drunken crowd he hied him, 
Where the chieftain sate enthroned, 

There, his shadowy trunks beside him, 
Thus in threatening accents groaned : 

" Heed, oh heed our fatal story, 

(I am Beissot's injured Ghost), 
You who hope to purchase glory 

In that field where I was lost ! 
Though dread Pitt's expected ruin 

Now your soul with triumph cheers, 
When you think on our undoing. 

You will mix your hopes with fears. 

" See these helpless, headless spectres, 

Wandering through the midnight gloom : 
Mark their Jacobinic lectures 

Echoing from the silent tomb ; 
These, thy soul with terror filling. 

Once were Patriots fierce and bold " — 
(Each his head, with gore distilling, 

Shakes, the whilst his tale is told). 

" Some from that dread engine's carving 
In vain contrived their heads to save — 

See Barbaeoux and Potion* starving 
In the Languedocian cave ! 

* Such was the end of these worthies. They were found 
starved to death in a cave in Languedoc. Vide Barrerc's Rep. 

[Charles Barbaroux was one of the most distinguished and 
energetic of the Girondists. As he opposed the party of Marat 
and Robespierre, he was, in 1793, proscribed as a Eoyalist and 
an enemy of the Eepublic. He wandered aboiit the comatry, 
hiding himself as he best could for thirteen months, when he 
was taken, and perished by the guillotine, June 25, 1794.— Ed.] 

JEROME Petion de Villeneuve was a prominent member 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 167 

See, in a higgler's* hamper buckled, 

How Louvet's soaring spirit lay ! 
How virtuous RoLAND,t helpless cuckold, 

Blew w^hat brains he had away. 

" How beneath the power of Marat, 

CoNDORCET, blaspheming, fell. 
Begged some laudanum of Garat,:{: 

Drank ; — and slept,— to wake in hell ! 



of the Jacobin Club, and a great ally of Eobespierre. Being 
elected Maire de Paris in Bailly's stead, he encouraged the 
demonstrations of the lowest classes, and the arming of the 
poj)ulace. He then joined the Girondists. On their defeat by 
the army of the Convention, he fled in July, 1793, into Bretagne. 
A short time after the corpses of himself and Buzot were found 
in a corn-field near St. Emilion, partly devoured by wolves. 
They were supposed to have died by then own hands. He was 
extremely virtuous m all his domestic relations ; but his public 
career shows him to have beeji weak, shallow, ostentatious, and 
vain. — Ed.] 

* See Louvet's RScit cle mes Perils. 

f This philosophic coxcomb is the idol of those who admire 
the French Eevolution up to a certain point. 

X This little anecdote is not generally known. — It is strikingly 
pathetic. — Garat has recorded this cii'cumstance in a very 
eloquent sentence — " toi, qui arretas la main avec laquelle tu 
tra9ais le progres de I'esprit humain, pour porter sur tes levres 
le breuvage mortel, d'autres p)ensees et d'autres sentimens out 
mclin^ ta volonte vers le tombeau, dans ta derniere delibera- 
tion. — (Garat, it seems, did not choose to poison himself.) — Tu 
as rendu a la Uberte eterneUe ton ame E^publicaine par ce 
poison qui avait 4ie partage entre nous comme le pam entre des 
freres." 

" Oh you, who stayed the hand with which you were tracing 
the progress of the human mind, to carry the mortal mixture 
to your lips — it was by other thoughts and other sentiments 
that your judgment was at length determmed in that last deli- 
berated act. You restored your republican spirit to an eternal 
freedom, by that poison which we had shared together, like a 
morsel of bread between two brothers." 



168 POETRY OF 

Oh that, with worthier souls uniting, 
I in my country's cause had shone ! 

Had died my Sovereign's battle fighting, 
Or nobly propp'd his sinking throne ! — 

" But hold ! — I scent the gales of morning — 

Covent-Garden's clock strikes One ! 
Heed, oh heed my earnest warning, 

Ere England is, like France, undone ! 
To St. Stephen's quick repairing, 

Your dissembled mania end ; 
And, your errors past forswearing. 

Stand at length your Country's Friend ! " 

[The preceding ballad is parodied from the one by Glover, 
entitled — 

ADMIRAL HOSIER'S GHOST. 

As near Porto-Bello lying 

On the gently swelling flood, 
At midnight with streamers flying, 

Our trimnphant navy rode : 
There while Vernon sat all-glorious 

From the Spaniard's late defeat. 
And his crews, with shouts victorious, 

Drank success to England's fleet : 

On a sudden, shi-illy sounding. 

Hideous yells and shrieks were heard, 
Then each heart with fear confounding, 

A sad troop of ghosts appeared : 
All in dreary hammocks slirouded. 

Which for winding-sheets they wore. 
And with looks by sorrow clouded. 

Frowning on that hostile shore. 

On them gleam'd the moon's wan lustre, 

When the shade of Hosier brave 
His pale bands was seen to muster, 

Rising from their wat'ry grave : 
O'er the glimmering wave he hied him. 

Where the Burford rear'd her sail. 
With three thousand ghosts beside him, 

And in groans did Vernon hail. 

Heed, O heed, our fatal story, 

I am Hosier's injured ghost, 
You who now have purchas'd glory. 

At this place where I was lost ; 
Though in Porto-Bello's ruin 

You now triumph free from fears, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 169 



When you think on our undoing, 
You will mix your joy with tears. 

See these mournful spectres sweeping 

Ghastly o'er this hated wave, 
Whose wan cheeks are stain'd with weeping, 

These were English Captains brave. 
Mark those numbers pale and horrid, 

Those were once my sailors bold, 
See each hangs his drooping forehead, 

While his dismal tale is told. 

I by twenty sail attended 

Did this Spanish town affright. 
Nothing then its wealth defended 

But my orders not to fight. 
O ! that in this rolling ocean 

I had cast them with disdain, 
And obey'd my heart's warm motion 

To have quell'd the pride of Spain. 

For resistance I could fear none, 

But with twenty ships had done 
Wliat thou, brave and happy Vernon, 

Hast achiev'd with six alone. 
Then the Bastinientos never 

Had our foul dishonour seen, 
Nor the sea the sad receiver 

Of this gallant train had been. 

Thus, like thee, proud Spain dismaying, 

And her galleons leading home. 
Though condemned for disobeying, 

I had met a traitor's doom : 
To have fallen, my country crying 

He has play'd an English part. 
Had been better far than dying 

Of a griev'd and broken heart. 

Unrepining at thy glory, 

Tliy successful arms we hail ; 
But remember our sad story, 

And let Hosier's wrongs prevail. 
Sent in this foul clime to languish. 

Think what thousands fell in vain. 
Wasted with disease and anguish. 

Not in glorious battle slain. 

Hence with all my train attending 

From their oozy tombs below, 
Through tlie hoary foam ascending. 

Here I feed my constant woe. 
Here the Bastimentos viewing, 

We recal our shameful doom. 
And our plaintive cries renewing. 

Wander through the midnight gloom. 

O'er these waves for ever mourning, 

Shall we roam deprived of rest. 
If to Britain's shores returning, 

You neglect my just request ; 
After this proud foe subduing. 

When your patriot friends you see, 
Think on Vengeance for my ruin, 

And for England sham'd in me.] 



170 POETRY OF 



No. XXVI. 

May 7, 1798. 
LOVES OF THE TEIANGLES. 
The frequent solicitations which we have received for 
a continuation of the Loves of the Triangles have 
induced us to lay before the public (with Mr. Higgins's 
permission) the concluding lines of the Canto. The 
catastrophe of Mr. and Mrs. Gingham, and the episode 
of Hippona, contained, in our apprehension, several reflec- 
tions of too free a nature. The conspiracy of Parameter 
and Abscissa against the Ordinate is written in a strain 
of poetry so very splendid and dazzling as not to suit the 
more tranquil majesty of diction which our readers 
admire in Mr. Higgins. We have therefore begun our 
extract with the Loves of the Giant Isosceles, and the 
Picture of the Asses-Bridge, and its several illustrations. 

CANTO I. 
extract. 

'Twas thine alone, youth of giant frame, 
Isosceles ! * that rebel heart to tame ! 
In vain coy Mathesis t thy presence flies : 
Still turn her fond hallucinating X eyes ; 

* Isosceles — An equi-crural triangle — It is represented as a. 
Giant, because Mr. Higgins says he has observed that pro- 
cerity is nnich promoted by the equal length of the legs, more 
especially when they are long legs. 

t Mathesis — The doctrine of mathematics —Pope calls her 
mad Mathesis. — Vide Johnsonh Dictionctry. 

X Hallucinating — The disorder with which Mathesis is affected 
is a disease of increased volition, called erotomania., or sentimental 
love. It is the fourth species of the second genus of the first 



THE AN TI- JACOBIN. 171 

Thrills with Galvanic fires * each tortuous nerve, 
Throb her blue veins, and dies her cold reserve. 
— Yet strives the fair, till in the giant's breast 
She sees the mutual passion's flame confessed : 
Where'er he moves, she sees his tall limbs trace 
Internal Angles\ equal at the base ; 
Again she doubts him : but produced at will, 
She sees th^ external Angles equal still. 

Say, blest Isosceles ! what favouring power, 
Or love, or chance, at night's auspicious hour, 
While to the Asses-Bridge| entranced you strayed, 
Led to the Asses-Bridge the enamoured maid ? — 

order and third class ; in consequence of which, Mr. Hackman 
shot Miss Eeaj^ in the lobby of the playhouse. — Vide Zoonomia, 
vol. ii., pp. 363, 365. 

* Galvanic fires — Dr. Galvani is a celebrated philosopher at 
Turin. He has proved that the electric fluid is the proximate 
cause of nervous sensibility ; and Mr. Higgins is of opinion 
that by means of this discovery, the sphere of our disagreeable 
sensations may be, in future, considerably enlarged. " Smce 
dead frogs (says he) are awakened by this Huid to such a degree 
of posthumous sensibihty as to jmiip out of the glass m which 
they are placed, why not men, who are sometimes so much more 
sensible when alive ? And if so, whj' not employ this new 
stimulus to deter mankind from dying (which they so perti- 
naciously continue to do) of various old-fashioned diseases, not- 
withstanding all the brilliant discoveries of modern philosophy, 
and the example of Count Cagliostro ? 

t Internal Angles, d-c. — This is an exact versification of 
Euclid's fifth theorem. — Vide Euclid in loco. 

X Asses-Bridge — Pons Asinorum — The name usuallj' given to 
the before-mentioned theorem — though, as Mr. Higgins thinks, 
absurdly. He says, that having frequently watched companies 
of asses during their passage of a bridge, he never discovered in 
them any sj^nptoms of geometrical instinct iipon the occasion. 
But he thinks that with Spanish asses, which are much larger 
(vide Toivnsend's Travels through /S^xw'h), the case may possibly be 
ditferent. 



172 POETRY OF 

The Asses-Bridge, for ages doomed to hear 
The deafening surge assault his wooden ear, 
With joy repeats sweet sounds of mutual bliss, 
The soft susurrant sigh, and gently-murmuring kiss. 

So thy dark arches, London Bridge^ bestride 
Indignant Thames, and part his angry tide, 
There oft — returning from those green retreats, 
Where fair Vanxhallia decks her sylvan seats ; — 
Where each spruce nymph, from city compters free. 
Sips the froth'd syllabub, or fragrant tea ; 
While with sliced ham, scraped beef, and burnt cham- 
pagne, 
Her 'prentice lover soothes his amorous pain ; — 
There oft, in well-trimmed wherry, glide along 
Smart beaux and giggling belles, a glittering throng : 
Smells the tarr'd rope — with undulation fine 
Flaps the loose sail — the silken awnings shine ; 
" Shoot we the bridge !'' the venturous boatmen cry; 
" Shoot we the bridge !" the exulting fare* reply. 
— Down the steep fall the headlong waters go, 
Curls the white foam, the breakers roar below. 
The veering helm the dexterous steersman stops, 
Shifts the thin oar, the fluttering canvas drops ; 
Then with closed eyes, clenched hands, and quick-drawn 

breath. 
Darts at the central arch, nor heeds the gulf beneath. 
Full 'gainst the pier the unsteady timbers knock. 
The loose planks, starting, own the impetuous shock ; 



* Fare —A person, or a number of persons, conveyed in a 
hired vehicle by land or water. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 173 

The shifted oar, dropp'd sail, and steadied hehn, 

With angry surge the closing waters whelm — 

Laughs the glad Thames, and clasps each fair one's 

charms, 
That screams and scrambles in his oozy arms. 
Drench'd each smart garb, and clogged each straggling 

limb. 
Far o'er the stream the Cockneys sink or swim ; 
While each badged boatman,* clinging to his oar, 
Bounds o'er the buoyant wave, and climbs the applauding 

shore. 

So, towering Alp ! from thy majestic ridge f 
Young Freedom gazed on Lodi's blood-stained Bridge ; 
Saw, in thick throngs, conflicting armies rush, 
Eanks close on ranks, and squadrons squadrons crush ; 
Burst in bright radiance through the battle's storm, 
Waved her broad hands, displayed her awful form ; 
Bade at her feet regenerate nations bow, 
And twined the wreath round Buonapabte's brow. 
Quick with new lights, fresh hopes, and altered zeal. 
The slaves of despots dropp'd the blunted steel : 
Exulting Victory owned her favourite child, 
And freed Liguria clapp'd her hands, and smiled. 



* Badficd boatman — Boatmen sometimes wear a badge, to 
distinguish them, especially those who belong to the Water- 
men's Companj^ 

t Alp, or Alps — A ridge of mountains which separate the 
North of Italy from the South of Germany. They are evidently 
primeval and volcanic, consisting of granite, toadstone, and 
basalt, and several other siibstances, containing animal and 
vegetable recrements, and affording munberless undoubted 
proofs of the infinite antiquity of the earth, and of the conse- 
quent falsehood of the Mosaic chronology. 



174 POETRY OF 

Nor long the time ere Britain's shores shall greet 
The warrior-sage^ with gratulation sweet : 
Eager to grasp the wreath of naval fame, 
The Great Eepublic plans the Floating Frame ! 
O'er the huge plane gigantic Terror stalks, 
And counts with joy the close-compacted balks : 
Of young-eyed Massacres the Cherub crew, 
Eound their grim chief the mimic, task pursue ; 
Turn the stiff screw,* apply the strengthening clamp, 
Drive the long bolt, or fix the stubborn cramp, 
Ijash the reluctant beam, the cable splice. 
Join the firm dove-tail with adjustment nice, 
Through yawning fissures urge the willing wedge, 
Or give the smoothing adze a sharper edge. 
Or group'd in fairy bands, with playful care. 
The unconscious bullet to the furnace bear ; — - 
Or gaily tittering, tip the match with fire, 
Prime the big mortar, bid the shell aspire ; 
Applaud, with tiny hands, and laughing eyes. 
And watch the bright destruction as it flies. 

Now the fierce forges gleam with angry glare — 
The windmill t waves his woven wings in air ; 

* Turn the stiff screw, &c. — The harmony and imagery of these 
lines are imperfectly imitated from the following exquisite 
passage in the Economy of Vegetation : 

" Gnomes, as yoti now dissect, with hammers fine, 
The granite rock, the noduled flint calcine ; 
Grind with strong arm the circling Chertz betwixt. 
Your pure Ka — o — lins and Pe — tunt — ses mixt. 

Canto ii. line 297. 
[f The windmill, &c. — This luae affords a striking mstance of the 
■sound conveying an echo to the sense. I would defy the most 
unfeeling reader to repeat it over without accompanying it by 
some corresponding gesture imitative of the action described. — 
Editor.] 



THE AXTI-JACOBIX. 175 

Swells the proud sail, the exulting streamers fly, 

Their nimble fins unnumber'd paddles ply : 

Ye soft airs breathe, ye gentle billows waft. 

And, fraught with Freedom, bear the expected Kaft ! 

Perch'd on her back, behold the Patriot train, 

Mum, Ashley, Baelow, Tone, O'Connor, Paine ! 

While Tandy's hand directs the blood-empurpled rein. 

Ye Imps of Murder? guard her angel form. 
Check the rude surge, and chase the hovering storm ; 
Shield from contusive rocks her timber limbs, 
And guide the sweet Enthusiast* as she swims ! 

And now, with web-foot oars, she gains the land, 
And foreign footsteps press the yielding sand : 
The Communes spread, the gay Departments smile, 
Pair Freedom's Plant o'ershades the laughing isle : 
Fired with new hopes, the exulting peasant sees 
The Gallic streamer woo the British breeze ; f 
While, pleased to watch its undulating charms. 
The smiling infant^ spreads his little arms. 

* Siveet Enthusiast, &c. — A term usually applied in allegoric 
or technical poetry to any person or object to which no other 
qualifications can be assigned. — Chambers's Dictionary. 

[t Anne Plumptre, who made herself known as one of the 
first introducers of German plays, said: "PcojjIc are talking 
■about an Invasion. I am not afraid of an Invasion ; I believe the 
country would be all the ha2}pier if Buonaparte were to effect a 
landing and overturn the Government. He woiild destroy the Church 
and the Aristocracy, and his government would be better than the 
■one we have". Crabb Robinson's Diary (1810), i. 298. — Ed.] 

X The smiling infant — Infancy is particularly interested in 
the diffusion of the new principles. See the "Bloody Buoy". 
See also the following description and prediction : 

"Here Time's hiige fingers grasp his giant mace, 
And dash proud Superstition from her base ; 
Piend her strong towers and gorgeous fanes, &c. 
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176 POETKY OF 

Ye sylphs of Death ! on demon pinions flit 
Where the tall Guillotine is raised for Pitt : 
To the poised plank tie fast the monster's back,* 
Close the nice slider, ope the expectant sack ; 
Then twitch, with faii-y hands, the frolic pin — 
Down falls the impatient axe with deafening din ; 
The liberated head rolls off below, f 
And simpering Freedom hails the happy blow ! 

While each light moment, as it passes by, 

With feathery foot and pleasure-twinkling eye, 

Feeds from its baby-hand with inany a kiss 

The callow-nestlings of domestic bliss." — Botanic Garden. 

* The monster's back — Le Monstre Pitt, I'ennemi du genre hu- 
main. See Debates of the legislators of the Great Nation, passim. 

t Atque illud prono praeceps agitur decnrsus. — CcUullus. 

[The following lines of Dr. Darwin's, in Canto ii., gave great 
offence to the Government : — 

So, borne on sounding pinions to the west, 
When tyrant-power had built his eagle nest ; 
Wliile from his eyry shriek'd the famish'd brood, 
Clench'd their sharp claws, and champ'd their beaks for 

blood. 
Immortal Franklin watch'd the callow crew, 
And stabb'd the sti'uggling vampires, ere they flew. 
— The patriot-flame with quick contagion ran, 
Hill lighted hill, and man electris'd man : 
Her heroes slain awhile Coluiubia mourn'd. 
And crown'd with laurels Liberty return'd. 

The warrior. Liberty, with bendmg sails, 
Helm'd his bold course to fair Hibernia's vales ; 
Firm as he steps along the shouting lands, 
Lo ! Truth and Virtue range their radiant bands ; 
Sad Superstition wails her empire torn, 
Art plies his oar, and Commerce pours her horn. 

Long had the giant-form on Gallia's plains 
Inglorious slept, unconscious of his chains ; 
Eound his lai-ge limbs were wound a thousand strings 
By the weak hands of confessors and kings ; 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 177 

O'er his closed eyes a triple veil was bound, 
And steely rivets lock'd him to the ground ; 
While stern Bastile with iron-cage inthralls 
His folded limbs, and hems in marble walls. — Ed.] 

NOTES TO LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. 

[The general features of Dr. Darwin's extraordinary poems, tlie "Lores of the 
Plantg," iind the " Econoii}// of VencUitinn," which are so admirably ridiculed in 
the preceding pages, may be gathered from the following specimens : — 

ARGUiMENT. 

The Genius of the place invites the Goddess of Botany — She descends— is re- 
ceived by Spring and the Elements — Addresses the Nymphs of Fire— Love created 
the LTniverse — Chaos explodes — All the Stars revolve — Colours of the Morning 
and Evening Skies — Exterior Atmosphere of inflammable Air — Fires at the 
Earth's Centre— Animal Incubation— Venus visits the Cyclops— Phosphoric 
Lights in the Evening — Bolognian Stone — Ignis fatuus— Eagle armed with 
Lightning — Discovery of Fire — Medusa— The Chemical Properties of Fire- 
Lady in Love — Gunpowder — Steam-engine — Labours of Hercules— Halo round 
the Heads of Saints— Fairy rings — Death of Professor Richman— Cupid snatches 
the thunderbolt from .Jupiter — The great Egg of Night — Naiad released — Fi'ost 
assailed— Whale attacked — Ice-Islands navigated into the Tropic Seas — Rainy 
Monsoons — Elijah on Mount Carmel — Departure of the Nymphs of Fire like 
sparks from Artificial Fireworks, &c. 

" Nymphs ! you disjoin, unite, condense, expand, 
And give new wonders to the Chemist's hand ; 
On tepid clouds of rising steam aspire, 
Or fix in sulphur all its solid fire ; 
With boundless spring elastic airs unfold. 
Or fill the flne vacuities of gold ; 
AVith sudden flash vitrescent sparks reveal. 
By fierce collision from the flint and steel ; 
Or mark with shining letters Kunkel's name 
In the pale phosphor's self-consuming flame. 
So the chaste heart of some enchanted maid 
Shines with insidious light, by love betray'd ; 
Round her pale bosom plays the young desire. 
And slow she wastes by self-consuming fire." 

These poems, produced in that dreary time for English poetry which elapsed 
between the disappearance of Cowper and Burns and the advent of Scott and 
Byron, had, in spite of their glaring absurdities, no lack of warm admirers. 
Miss Seward, in her Life of Br. Darwin, published in 1804, sets no limits to her 
.admiration: — "We are presented," she says, " with an highly imaginative and 
sjilenilidly descriptive poem, whose successive pictures alternately possess the 
sublimity of Michael Angelo, the correctness and elegance of Raphael, with the 
glow of Titian ; whose landscapes have, at times, the strength of Salvator, and 
at others the softness of Claude ; whose numbers are of stately grace, and artful 
harmony ; while its allusions to ancient and modern history and fable, and its 
interspersion of recent and extraordinary anecdotes, render it extremely enter- 
taining. * •■ * Each part is enriched by a number of philosophical notes. 
They state a great variety of theories and experiments in Botany, Chemistry, 
Electricity, Mechanics, and in the various species of Air, salubrious, noxious, 
and deadly," &c.] 

THE .SCOTTISH "POLITICAL MARTYRS". 
[Thomas Muir, the younger, of Hunter's Hill, a promising young advocate 
of the Scottish Bar, and of high respectability, was tried at Edinburgh, 30th 
and 31st of August, 1793, before Lord Justice Clerk (Braxfield), Lords Hender- 

12 



178 POETRY OP 

land, Swinton, Dunsinnan, and Abercromby, for Sedition. The weightiest 
charge against him was that of " lending" a copy of Paine's Rights of Man to a 
person wlio begged a reading of that popular book. He was found guilty, and 
sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. On the 17th of the ensuing 
month, the Rev. Thos. Fyshe Palmer, a Unitarian Minister of Dundee, and an 
ex-fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, was tried at Perth for publishing a 
seditious Address, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. On their 
arrival at Woolwjch, in a revenue cuttei', they were put on board separate 
hulks, and assisted at the common labour on the banks of the river. MuiR, 
soon after his arrival in New South Wales, effected his escape, in an American 
vessel, to South America, whence he proceeded to Spain. Buring this voyage, 
in an action with a British frigate, he received a wound in the head, from 
which he recovered ; but on his arrival at his destination, he was imprisoned 
by the Spanish authorities, until, on the application of M. de Talleyrand in the 
name of the then government of France, he obtained his release. He then 
went to France, and died at Bourdeaux [or Cliantilly] in 1799 ; aged 33. 
Palmer served out his seven years, but died on the hcimeward voyage. 

Other Trials soon followed. At the close of December, 1793, Mr. Skirving, 
Mr. Gerrald, and Mr. Margarot were tried at Kdinburgh on similar charges 
of seditious practices, and were all sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. 
The former two died soon after reaching New South Wales. Maurice Mar- 
garot, who appears to have conducted himself tliroughout with the most 
abandoned and shameless profligacy, was the only one of these convicts — his 
fourteen years over — who ever set foot again in Britain. 

Gerrald was a man of very superior ability, and a favourite pupil of Dr. 
Parr's, as is mentioned by De Quincey in his famous essay on that noted Whig 
pedagogue. 

On the Scottish " political martyrs " Lord Cockburn, in bis posthumous 
Examination of the Trials for Sedition in Scotland, published in 1SS8, which deals 
with the twenty-five trials of the above-named five and of thirty-two others, be- 
tween 1793 and 1819, passes his deliberate verdict, that, with the exception of 
Muir, not one of them was guiltless. But, like ordinary criminals, tbey were 
entitled to a fair and impartial trial ; and tlieir trials were, one and all, iniqui- 
tous. Of the six judges who presided in the first fourteen (1793-94), five were 
dull, timid nonentities ; the sixth. Lord Justice Clerk Braxfleld, was, says 
Lord Cockburn, "a profound practical lawyer, and a powerful man; coarse 
and illiterate . . . utterly devoid of judicial decorum, and though pure in the 
administration of civil justice, when he was exposed to no temptation, with no 
other conception of principle in any political case except that the upholding of 
his party was a duty attaching to his position. Over the five weak men who sat 
beside him, this coarse and dexterous ruffian predominated as he chose." But 
Jedburgh — no, nor the Bloody Assize itself— could scarcely match one scene in 
Gerrald's trial : — " ' After all,' he was urging in his defence, 'the most useful 
discoveries in philosophy, the most important changes in the moral history of 
man, have been innovations. The Revolution was an innovation, Christianity 
itself was an innovation.' Instantly upon this, the following interruption took 
place : - Lord Braxfield : ' You would have been stopped long before this, if 
you had not been a stranger. All that you have been saying is sedition. And 
now, ray Lords, he is attacking Christianity.' Lord Henderland : ' I allow him 
all the benefit of his defence. But ... I cannot sit here as a judge without 
saying that it is a most indecent defence. . . .' The juries were packed as 
never, surely, before, or afterwards." 

With such judges, such juries, and, at least, in two cases, false witnesses, it 
might seem easy to anticipate the result ; but the result transcends anticipation. 
In almost every case a light sentence would have amply met the requirements 
of justice ; but the judges all shared Lord Swintoii's opinion that " it is impos- 
sible to punish Sedition adequately, now that torture has been abolished ". So 
they strove to supply the deficiency by Transportation, a punishment unwar- 
ranted by precedent. 

With respect to Margarot's trial at Edinburgh, the following is a vivid 
memory of Lord Cockburn's boyhood : — 

" ^Margarot came from the Black Bull [in Leith Street] to be tried, attended 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 179 

by a procession of tbe populace and his Convention friends, with banners and 
what was called a tree of liberty. This tree was in the shape of the letter M, 
about twenty feet hish iind ten wide. The honour of beaiing it up by carrying 
the twii uiuight poles w;is assigned to two eminent Conventionalists, and the 
little culprit walked beneath the circular placard in the centre, which proclaimed 
liberty and equality, &c. I was looking out of a window in the old Post-Office, 
which was then the northmost house on the west side of the North Bridge. 
I think I see the scene yet. The whole North Bridge, from the Tron Church to 
the Register Office, was quite empty at first ; not a single creature venturing on 
that l)it of sand, over which the waves were so soon to break from both ends. 
The Post-Office and the adjoining houses had been secretly filled with constables, 
and sailors from a frigate in the roads (I think The Hind, Capt. Cochrane), all 
armed with sticks and batons. No soldier appeared, it being determined that 
this civic insurrection should be put down by the civil force, unaided, at least, 
by scarlet. As soon as the tree, which led the van, emerged from Leith Street, 
and appeared at the north end of the bridge. Provost Elder and the Magistrates 
issued from some place they had retired to (I believe the Tron Church), and ap- 
peared, all robed, at the south end. The day was good. There was still not 
one person— I doubt if there was even a dog— on any part of the space, being the 
whole length of the bridge, between the two parties. But the rear of 
each was crammed with people, who tilled up every inch as those in front 
moved on. The Magistrates were in a line across the street, with the Provost 
in the centre, the city officers behind this line, and probably a hundred loyal 
gentlemen in the rear of the officers. The two parties advanced steadily 
towards each other, and in perfect silence, till they met just about the Post- 
Office. The Provost stepped forward about a pace, so that he almost touched 
the front line of the rebels, when, advancing his cane, he commanded them to 
retire. This order probably would not have been obeyed ; but, at any rate, it 
could not have been obeyed speedily, from the crowd behind. However, all 
this was immaterial ; for, without waiting one instant to see whether they 
meant to retire or not, the houses vomited forth their bludgeoned contents, and 
in almost tivo minutes the tree was demolished and thrown over the bridge, the 
street covered with the knocked down, the accused dragged to the bar, and the 
insurrection was over." 

On Febiuary 20th, 1837, a meeting took place at the Crown and Anchor 
Tavern, Strand, for commencing a subscription to erect monuments in London 
and Edinburgh to the memory of the above five Refonners. Joseph Hume, 
M.P. was in the chair ; Colonel Perronet Thompson, Mr. Dan. Whittle Harvey, 
and fifteen other members of Parliament were present. A lofty obelisk was 
erected on the Calton Hill to the memory of the "Scottish Martyrs," but 
London did not sympathize with the movement.— Ed.] 



JOEL BARLOW. 
[Joel B.^rlow, born in 1756 in Connecticut, was educated as a Presbyterian 
minister, but afterwards turned Deist. Before this change he translated the 
Psalms into metre, and his version is still used in the churches of New England. 
He now adopted the Law, and engaged in periodicals— one, The Anarchist, 
which was political in its character, and exercised great influence. In 17SS, 
after visiting England, he went to Paris, where he joined the Girondists. In 
17id, he returned to England, where he published the first part of his Adcicc to 
the Prh-ilcgol Orders, in which he assails the whole system of Government 
pursued in monarchical Europe, the Church establishments, the standing 
armies, the judicial organisations, and the financial systems which belong to 
the old governments. In February, 1792, he published a political poem, which 
he entitled The Conspiraci/ of Kiivis ; also a Letter to the Conventioii advising 
the separation of Church and State. So great did his reputation become that 
he was fixed on by the London Constitutional Society to present their Address 
to the Con txntioii. After various political transactions in the intei'est of France, 
and also in commercial speculations which made hiin a rich man, he left Paris 
in 1805, living on his estate in America till 1811, when he was sent as Minister 



180 POETRY OF 

Plenipotentiary to Paiis. Bnt Napoleon being on his Russian Expedition, he 
followed him to Wilna ; but the fatiguing journey proved fatal : he died 26th 
December, 1812. He wrote at an early age a poem, Tin: VUion of Columbus, which 
acquii'ed great popularity, and which he afterwards enlarged as The Columbiad. 
Among other works he published (in 17f)6) a mock-heroic poem, BastT/ Pudding, 
which is generally considered his best work. — Ed.] 

THEOBALD WOLFE TONE. 

[Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founder of the A.ssociation of United Irish- 
men, was born in Dublin in 1764, and, after passing through Trinity College, 
came to London to prosecute his legal studies, which he soon forsook for 
politics, being induced thereto by the indignation excited in his breast by the 
persecution of the Irish Catholics, whose cause, although himself a Protestant, 
he warmly advocated. With the view of getting their grievances redressed, he 
founded the society of L^mted Irishmen, which gavegreat alarm to the English 
Government. His liberty being menaced, he went to America, and thence to 
France, where he arranged with Gen. Hoche the expeditions to Bantry Bay and 
the Texel. Being appointed Adjutant-General, he served in several of the 
French armies, and lastly in Gen. Hardi's expedition to Ireland in October, 
1798. The vessel he was aboard of was captured by the English, and he was 
conveyed to Dublin, tried by a Court-Martial, and sentenced to be hanged. 
He anticipated his execution, however, by committing suicide in prison, 19th 
November, 179S.— Ed.] 

ARTHUR O'CONNOR. 

[On the 21st and 22nd May, 1798, Arthur O'Connor (proprietor of a Dublin 
newspaper. Tin: Pn.u), John Binns (an active member of the London Corrc- 
spondiiUJ Socirt;/), JOHN ALLEN, JEREMIAH Leary, and Jas. O'Coigly, (dies Ja.s. 
C^uigley, cd ins Jus. John Fivey (a Priest), were tried at Maidstone for High 
Treason. ROBERT Fergusson was counsel for Allen. O'Coigly only was found 
Guilty, and was executed 7th June, on Pennenden Heath. After being sus- 
pended for ten minutes, he was cut down and his head severed from his body : 
the disgusting remainder of his sentence was remitted. He met his death with 
great fortitude, and denying to the last the charge of treasonable correspon- 
dence abroad. In the State Tricds, vols. 26 and 27, are included the Life of the 
prisoner ; Observations on bis Trial ; Address to the People of Ireland ; and 
Letters, all written by himself during his contineraent in Maidstone Gaol. His 
real name, he says, was the Rev. Jas. Coigly, and his age 36. " Can you 
imagine a man more treacherous and profligate than O'Coigly ?" said Sir James 
Mackintosh to Dr. Parr. " Yes, Sir, he might have been worse : he was a 
parson — he might have been a lawyer ; he was a traitor— he might have been 
an apostate ; he was an Irishman — he might have been a Scotchman." When 
it is recollected that INIackintosh was a Scotchman and a lawyer, and that he 
had written in defence of the French Revolution against Burke, these observa- 
tions of Dr. Parr were both insolent and uncalled for. 

A Portrait of "Arthur O'Connor, late Member in the Irish Parliament for 
Borough of Philipstown, painted by J. Dowling, engraved by W. Ward," was 
published in London, 18th April, 1798. Another Portrait in military uniform is 
to be found in Barrington's ilenwirs of the Union. He figures also in several 
of Gillray'S Caricatures. 

In the Birmingham Da.ibj Post of April 2, 1SS8, it is stated that THE HON. R. 
E. O'Connor, M.A., barrister-at-law, the latest addition to the Legislative 
Council of New South Wales, is a grandson of Arthur O'Connor, one of the 
leaders of the United Irishmen, who died a General in the service of France. 

When O'Connor was acquitted by the Jury, on the above-named occasion, 
but before the Judge had given orders for his release, a strange scene occurred 
in court, an attempt being made, as it was alleged, by Sackville, Earl of 
Thanet, Robert Fergusson (in after years known as Cutlar Fergusson, 
Judge-Advocate-General), and others to facilitate his escape in order to avoid 
further charges about to be preferred against him, Binns also being implicated 
for this exploit, which was unsuccessful, but attended with violence. These 



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confederates were tried at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, 25th 
April, 1799. The Counsel for the Crown were Sir John 8cott [Lord Eldon], 
I/aw [Lord Ellenborough], Sir W. Garrow, Sir C. Abbot, &c., while the 
defendants had the powerful advocacy of Erskine and others. His 
Lordship and Mr. Fergusson were found guilty after a long and ingenious 
defence by the latter, which presaged his future eminence as a Counsel. Lord 
Thanet was ordered to pay a fine of ±;1000 ; to be imprisoned in the Tower for a 
year ; and to give security "for good behaviour for seven years on the expiration 
t)f the sentence ; himself in £111,000, and two sureties in £.^000 each. Fergus- 
son was ordered to pay a tine of £100 ; to be imprisoned in the King's Bench 
prison for one year ; to give security for good behaviour for seven years from 
the expiration of the sentence ; himself in £5iO, and two sureties in £250 each. 
—See ^tate Trials, vols. 26 and 27.— Ed.] 

JAMES NAPPER TANDY. 

["A person who afterwards made a considerable figure in the local affairs 
of Ireland raised himself about this time into considerable notoriety by hi.s 
patriotic exertions. This was Mr. James Napper Tandy, a gentleman in 
the middle station of life, without talent or natural influence, had become a 
warm advocate in the corporation of Dublin ; he debated zealously in public, 
he argued strenuously in private, and persevered in both with indefatigable 
ardour. His person was ungracious — his language neither eloquent nor 
argumentative— his address neither graceful nor impressive— but he was 
sincere and persevering -and though in many instances erroneous and violent, 
he was considered to be honest. His private character furnished no ground to 
dciulit the integrity of his public one— and, like many of those persons who 
occusiniially spring up in revolutionary periods, he accpured celebrity without 
being iilile to account for it, and posses.sed influence without rank or capacity. 
In 17yC), Mr. Tandy lost all his popularity, and nearly his life, by his apparent 
want of courage in an affair between him and Mr. Toler, then Solicitor-General, 
afterwards Lord Xorbury, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. IMr. Tandy 
liaving signified to Mr. 'Toler his desire to fight him, the Chief Justice readily 
accejited the offer. Both parties manceuvred very skilfully; but Mr. Tandy 
delayi]ig liis ultimatum too long for the impatience of the Solicitor-General, he 
brought him before the House" of Commons for a breach of privilege, and pro- 
secuted him for sedition. Mr. Tandy escaped to the Continent, entered the 
French Service, invaded Ireland, was, with his confederates, arrested by the 
British Envoy at Hamburg, 24 Nov., 1798, contrary to the law of nations: the 
Minister of France claimed them as French citizens, and the Senate, un- 
willing to offend either power, came to no decision on the subject. Tandy was 
thereupon taken to Ireland and condemned to be hanged— was pardoned by 
Lord Cornwallis, and sent back to France, where he died a French General." 
— Barrington's Mimoirs of the Unioii, vol. 1, where is a portrait of Tandy. — Eo.J 




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No. XXVII. 

May 14, 1798. 
The gallant defence of the Isles of St. Marcou would 
justify a more serious celebration than is attempted in 
the following poem ; and the modest and unassuming 
manner in which Lieutenant Price gives the account 
of services so highly meritorious, adds to the hope which 
we entertain that he will meet a more solid reward than 
any verse of ours or of our correspondent's could bestow. 
Citizen Muskein, if he understands Horace, and can 
read English, will be amply rewarded for the victory of 
which he has, no doubt, by this time, made a pompous 
report to the Directory, by the perusal of the 14th Ode 
of the 1st Book, for which we have to return our thanks 
to a classical correspondent. 

A CONSOLATOEY ADDEESS TO HIS GUNBOATS. 

BY CITIZEN MUSKEIN. 

navis ! referent in mare te novi jluctus. 

GENTLE GuN-BoATS, whom the Seine 
Discharged from Havre to the main ; 
Now leaky, creaking, blood-bespattered, 
With rudders broken, canvas shattered — 
tempt the treacherous sea no more, 
But gallantly regain the shore. 

Scarce could our guardian goddess, Eeason, 
Ensure your timbers through the season. 
Though built of wood from famed Marseilles, 
Well-manned from galleys, and from jails, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 183 

Though with Lepaux's and Eewbell's aid, 
By Pleville's '•' skill your keel was laid ; 
Though lovely Stael, and lovelier Stone,* 
Have worked their fingers to the bone, 
And cut their petticoats to rags 
To make your bright three-coloured flags ; 
Yet sacrilegious grape and ball 
Deform the works of Stone and Stael, 
And trembling, without food or breeches, 
Our sailors curse the ixiintcd .+ 

Children of Muskein's anxious care, 
Source of my hope and my despair, 
GuN-BoATS — unless you mean hereafter 
To furnish food for British laughter — 
Sweet GuN-BoATS, with your gallant crew, 
Tempt not the rocks of Saint Maecou ; 
Beware the Badger's bloody pennant. 
And that d d invalid Lieutenant ! 

• Stone. — Better known by the name of Williams. 

t AVe decline printing this rhyme at length, from obvious 
reasons of delicacy ; at the same time that it is so accurate a 
translation of 2^'^'^^'^^ puppihus, that we know not how to sup- 
press it, without doing the utmost injustice to the general 
spirit of the poem. 

LYRICS OF HORACE. ODE XIV., BOOK I, 

TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. 

Ship, fresh billows soon again 
Shall bear thee to the boisterous main ! 
Firm, keep the port. See, see thy side, 
"Without a single oar to giiide 1 
Wounded by tempests is thy mast : 
Tliy sail -yards groan beneath the blast ; 
Nor can thy keel, uncabled, brave 
The swelling of th' miperious wave. 



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Torn are thy sails I nor Gods hast thou, 
When danger threats, to hear thy vow. 
Though born of noblest wood, 'twas thme 
To tower a vigorous Pontic pine ; 
'Tis vain thy race, thy name, to prize : 
Nought on his painted stern relies 
The trembling seaman. Storms afar 
Thicken to mock thy strength : beware. 

Thou, who wast late my anxious fear, 
Thou now my fondest, tenderest care : 
O shun, dear Ship, those tossing seas 
Which part the white-cliff'd Cyclades ! 

[Ml'sivEIN was an inhabitant of Antwerp, whom the Directory not only 
appointed to superintend the construction of the flat-bottomed boats for the 
invasion of (Jreat Britain (nsiially called by the French sailors " bateaux a la 
ilMkein"), but made a " capitahic de vaisacau". An attack was ordered to be 
made upon the two small islands of Saint Marcouf (each not more than 200 
yards in leneth), of which, in July, 179a, Sir SinNEV Smith, with the Diamond 
frigate, had taken unobstructed possession, and which were considered to give 
to the English great facility in intercepting between the ports of Havre and 
Cherbourg. The islands are situated off tlie river Isigny, on the coast of Nor- 
mandy, and about four miles distant from the French shore. After being 
garrisoned with about 500 seamen and marines, including a great proportion of 
invalids, these small islands were placed under the command of Lieut. 
Charles Papps Price, of I'he Badger, a cruiser-converted Dutch hoy, mounting 
four, or at most six, guns. 

On the 8th April, 1798, Muskein, with 33 flat-bottomed boats, with a body 
of troops on board, and a few gun-brigs, was about to make a combined attack 
on the two islands, but was driven oflf by two British frigates. The Di.oioxd, 
Vupt. Sir -R. J. Strachan, and THE Hydra, Cnpf. Sir Freoicis Laj'orey, and stood 
into Caen river. While there for three weeks, repairing damages, he was joined 
by seven heavy gun-brigs, and about 40 flat-boats and armed fishing vessels, 
bringing with them additional troops. 

On the 0th May, Lieut. Price received information that an attack was 
meditated during the night. By 10 p.m., owing to the prevailing calm, the 
small naval force on the station, consisting of the 50-gun ship. Adamant, ('ajH. 
Will. Hotharii, 24-gun ship. Eurydice, Capt. John Tedhot, and 18-gun brig-sloop, 
Orestes, Capt. W. Haaijitt, had not been able to approach nearer to the iislands 
than six miles — precisely what the assailants wanted. The attacking force 
consisted of 52-gun brigs and flat-bottomed boats, having on board, as was re- 
ported, about 0000 men. At day-break, on the 7th, the flotilla was seen drawn 
up in a line opposite to the south-west front of the western redoubt ; and 
instantly was opened, upon the brigs and flats composing it, a fire from 17 
pieces of cannon, consisting of four 4, two C, and six 24 pounder long guns, and 
three 24 and two 32-pouncler carionades, being all the guns that would bear. 
The brigs remained at a distance of from 300 to 400 yards, in order to batter the 
redoubt with their heavy long guns, while the boats, with great resolution, 
rowed up until within musket-shot of the battery. But the guns of the latter, 
loaded with round, grape, and canister, soon poured destruction amongst these, 
cutting several of the boats " into chips," and compelling all that could keep 
afloat to seek their safety in flight. Six or seven boats were seen to go down, 
and one small flat, No. 13, was afterwards towed in, bottom upwards. She 
appeared, by some pieces of paper found in her, to have had 144 persons on 
board, including 129 of the second company of the Boulogne battalion. 

The loss sustained by the British garrison amounted to one private-marine 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 185 

killed, and two piivate-marines and two seamen wounded. According to one 
French account, the invaders lost about 900 in killed or drowned, and Ijetween 
300 and 400 wounded. As a reward for their conduct on this occasion, Lieuten- 
ants Price and Bourne were each promoted to the rank of Commander. The 
former died a Post Captain, at Hereford, in 1S13, aged 62.— James'/: Kami Hlstori/, 
vol. ii., pp. 128-131 : ed. 1886.— Ed.] 

[M. PlSville was Minister of Marine, and, shortly afte*' this unsuccessful 
dt'hut of the famous flotilla, was succeeded by Rear-Adm. Bruix, who directed 
Rear-Adm. La Crosse to take the command, and to make a second attack upon 
the islands. This, however, the French Government declined to make. — Ed.] 

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. 

Helen M.\RIA Willi.\ms.—(" Among the literary celebrities of the French 
Revolution was Helen Maria Williams, at whose house were wont to assemble 
the most distinguished of the liberal writers of France, her own reputation 
giving considerable eclat to these meetings. She wrote some of the most 
beautiful hymns in our language, was a prisoner under the rtiini nf terror, and 
published a work on the French Revolution which is full of the most touching 
incidents, and adorned with specimens of the ardent and pathetic poetry, the 
product of French genius under the excitement of those most mystei'ious days. 
A. Humboldt was much attached to her, and committed to her care the trans- 
lation and publication of some of his most eIal)orate works. 

"She had two nephews, Athanas and Charles Coquerel, whom she 
educated, and who both attained considerable fame, one in the theological and 
the other in the political field. Athanas was for .some time the preacher in the 
Protestant Church at Amsterdam, and married the daughter of a Swiss gentle- 
man, the only pei'son I have ever known on the Continent to adopt the dress and 
profess the opinions of an English Quaker. Miss Williams maintained iutimate 
relations with her English friends, was familiar with the great lights of the 
Revolution, and her conversation was most instructive, entertaining, and 
varied. All her sympathies were on the side of freedom, and thuugh she was 
not so prominent as to be persecuted by the Emperor, like Madame de Stael, 
she was the object of a good deal of suspicion and naiiowly watched by the 
police." — Autobr. Kecnlkctions btj Sir Jo/rn Boirriii;/, pp. 353-4. — En.] 

[Miss Williams, for some years, wrote that portion of the A'cw Aanunl Rcgkler 
which relates to France. Among many other productions she was the author 
of the song Ecan Banks (to the tune of Havounia Delish), which has often been 
attributed to Burns ; a novel called Julia, and a Tour in Sicitzerla/ad. Horace 
Walpole called her in his Correspondence a "scribbling trollop". 

She lived for many years, and until the death of that gentleman — in Paris, 
1818— under the protecHon. of JOHN HURFORD STONE, a man of letters, who in 
the early part of the French Revolution had removed with his wife to Paris, 
where he formed an intimacy with Miss Williams. She was born about 1762, 
and died in Paris in 1827 as a friend to the Bourbons, and the enemy of the 
Revolution ! 

This Mr. Stone was born at Tiverton in 1763, While in Paris he was in the 
confidence of the Directory, and became one of the chief printers there. In 
180.5, he brought out an edition of the Genera Bible, and published several 
English reprints ; also Miss Williams's translation of Humboldt's Travels. His 
brother, Wm. Stone, was tried in 1790 for High Treason, for holding treason- 
able correspondence with him. — Ed.] 



ELEGY 

ON THE DEATH OF JEAN BON ST. ANDK^. 

The following exquisite tribute to the memory of an 
unfortunate republican is written with such a touching 



186 POETRY OF 

sensibility, that those who can command salt tears must 
prepare to shed them. The narrative is simple and un- 
affected ; the event in itself interesting ; the moral 
obvious and awful. — We have only to observe, that as 
this account hi the transaction is taken from the French 
papers, it may possibly be somewhat partial. — The 
Dey's own statement of the affair has not yet been 
received. Every friend of humanity will join with us in 
expressing a candid and benevolent hope, that this busi- 
ness may not tend to kindle the flames of war between 
these two unchristian powers ; but that, by mutual con- 
cession and accommodation, they may come to some 
point (short of the restoration of Jean Bon's head on his 
shoulders, which in this stage of the discussion is hardly 
practicable) by which the peace of the Pagan world may 
be preserved. For our part, we pretend not to decide 
from which quarter the concessions ought principally to 
be made. It is but candid to allow that there are pro- 
bably faults on both sides, in this, as in most other cases. 
For the character of the Dey we profess a sincere re- 
spect on the one hand ; and on the other, we naturally 
wish that the head of Jean Bon St. x\nde^ should be 
reserved for his own guillotine. 

ELEGY; OE, DIRGE. 

I. 

All in the town of Tunis, 
In Africa the torrid, 

On a Frenchman of rank 

Was played such a prank, 
As Lepaux must think quite horrid. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 187 

II. 

No story half so shocking, 
By kitchen fire or laundry, 

Was ever heard tell, — 

As that which befel 
The great Jean Bon St. Andre.* 

III. 
Poor John was a gallant Captain, 
In battles much delighting ; 

He fled full soon 

On the first of June — 
But he bade the rest keep fighting. 

IV. 

To Paris then returning. 
And recovered from his panic. 

He translated the plaii 

Of Paine s Rights of Man, 
Into language Mauritanic. 

V. 

He went to teach at Tunis — 
"Where as Consul he was settled — 

[*Jean Bon St. Andrd, deputy to the Convention for the 
Department of Lot, during the reign of Terror, rivalled Marat 
and Eobespierre in cruelty. Having been appointed to re- 
model the Republican Navy, he was present at the action of 
June 1, 1794, in which he shewed excessive cowardice. He 
was afterwards Consul at Smyrna, where he was arrested by 
the Turks, but released on the peace. Napoleon subsequently 
commissioned him to organise the four departments of the 
Ehine, in which he succeeded. He was created a Baron, a 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honoiu- and Prefect of Maure. He 
died in 1813 of a contagious malady caught while performing 
charitable offices for the sick ! — Ed.] 



188 POETRY OP 

Amongst other things, 
" That the people are kings ! " 
Whereat the Dey was nettled. 

VI. 

The Moors being rather stupid, 
And in temper somewhat mulish, 
Understood not a word 
Of the doctrine they heard, 
And thought the Consul foolish. 

VII. 

He formed a Clith of Brothers, 
And moved some resolutions — 

" Ho ! ho ! (says the Dey), 

" So this is the way 
" That the French make Revolutions ". 

VIII. 

The Dey then gave his orders 
In Arabic and Persian — 

" Let no more be said^ 

But bring me his head ! 
These Clubs are my aversion ''. 

IX. 

The Consul quoted Wicquefokt, 
And PuFFENDORF and Grotius ; 

And proved from Vattel 

Exceedingly well, 
Such a deed would be quite atrocious. 

X. 

'Twould have moved a Christian's bowels 
To hear the doubts he stated ; — 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 189 

But the Moors they did 
As they were bid, 
And strangled him while he prated. 

XI. 

His head with a sharp-edged sabre 
They severed from his shoulders, 

And stuck it on high, 

Where it caught the eye, 
To the wonder of all beholders. 

XII. 

This sure is a doleful story 

As e'er you heard or read of ; — 

If at Tunis you prate 

Of matters of state, 
Anon they cut your head off ! 

XIII. 

But we hear the French Directors 
Have thought the point so knotty ; 

That the Dey having shown 

He dislikes Jean Bon, 
They have sent him Beknadott:^. 

On recurring to the French papers to verify our Cor- 
respondent's statement of this singular adventure of 
Jean Bon St. Andbe, we discovered, to our great morti- 
fication, that it happened at Algiers, and not at Tunis. 
We should have corrected this mistake, but for two 
reasons — first, that Algiers would not stand in the 
verse ; and, secondly, that we are informed by the young 
man who conducts the Geographical Department of the 
Morning Chronicle, that both the towns are in Africa, or 



190 POETBY OF 

Asia (he is not quite certain which), and, what is more 
to the purpose, that both are peopled by Moors. Tunis, 
therefore, may stand. 

[Marshal BernadottjS, the French Pi-ince of Monti Corvo, died as Charles 
John XIV., King of Sweden, 8th March, 1844, ill his eighty-first year. He 
married, in 1798, EUGEXiA-BEHNAKDiNA-DfisiRfiE be Clary, daughter of a 
Marseilles merchant, and sister of Madame Joseph Buonaparte (Queen of 
Spain). " Slie, who was not a common-place person," says Madame de 
R^MUSAT, in her valuable Memoirs, " had before her marriage been very much 
in love with Napoleon, and appears to have always preserved the memory of 
that feeling ! It has been supposed that her hardly extinguished passion 
caused her obstinate refusal to leave France." She survived her husband 
many years, and died in Paris, in the Rue d'Anjou Saint Honore. Her husband 
was succeeded on the throne of Sweden by their son, Oscar I., who married 
Josephine, daughter of Eug6ne Beauharnais, Due de Leuchtenberg, and 
granddaughier of the EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. 

Bernadotte owed his elevation to the throne to the misgovernment of 
Gustavus IV., who had brought the nation to the verge of ruin, and who was de- 
posed in 1809, when his uncle, the Duke of Siulermania, became king as Charles 
XIII. ; and the next year, Bernadoti'E was elected Crouii Prince, and successor 
to the throne. 

In 1813, he rendered great assistance to the Allies, for, as Crown Prince, he 
joined the confederacy against France with 30,000 men ; and, after defeating 
Marslial Ney, with great loss, on the 6th September, he, on the 18tli October, 
with the co-operation of Bliicher, again defeated him at the decisive Battle of 
Leipsic ; and, on the 19th, the Emperor Alexander, the King of Prussia, and 
the Crown Prince, entered the great square of Leipsic, amidst the acclamations 
of the inhabitants. He was a decided democrat, and hated by Napoleon, but 
was the only sovereign of the revolutionary branch who was permitted to retain 
his dominions after the great reaction in 1814. The choice made of this 
great soldier of fortune excited the surprise of all Europe at the time, but the 
wisdom of it was soon demonstrated by his prudent conduct. He had 
distinguished himself from all Napoleon's other marshals by his clemency 
in victory. For half a century before his accession, Sweden had not known the 
peace and prosperity in which he left the country on his death. 

In T. Raikes's Diari/ will be found some interesting anecdotes of Berna- 
DOTTfi's gratitude for services rendered him while a young subaltern. But one 
is of a more startling nature, as it records his narrow escape from the death 
intended for him by the widow of the late king, who had purposely prepared a 
poisoned cup of coffee for him, which she herself presented to him at her own 
table. Having been suddenly warned, he succeeded in forcing it upon her 
She resolutely accepted her fate, and died during the night.— Ed. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 191 



No. XXVITL 

May 21, 1798. 
We have received the following letter, with the poem 
that accompanies it, from a gentleman whose political 
opinions have hitherto differed from our own ; but who 
appears to feel, as every man who loves his country 
must, that there can be but one sentiment entertained 
by Englishmen at the present moment. 

Were we at liberty, we should be happy to do justice 
to the author, and credit to ourselves, by mentioning his 
name. 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " ANTI-JACOBIN ". 

SiE, — However men may have differed on the political 
or constitutional questions which have of late been 
brought into discussion — whatever opinions they may 
have held on the system or conduct of administration — 
there can surely be now but one sentiment as to the 
instant necessity of firm and strenuous union for the 
preservation of our very existence as a people ; and if 
degrees of obligation could be admitted, where the 
utmost is required from all, it should seem that in this 
cause the opposers of administration stand doubly 
pledged ; for with what face of consistency can men pre- 
tend to stickle for points of constitutional liberty at 
home, who will not be found amongst the foremost at 
their posts to defend their country from the yoke of 
foreign slavery ? 

That there should be any set of men so infatuated as 
not to be convinced that the object of the enemy must 



192 POETRY OP 

be the utter destruction of these countries, after making 
the largest allowance for the effects of prejudice and 
passion, it is not easy to conceive. Such, however, we 
are told, there are. They believe, then, that after a long 
series of outrage, insult, and injury, in the height of 
their animosity and presumption, these moderate, mild, 
disinterested conquerors will invade us in arms, out of 
pure love and kindness, merely for our good, only to 
make us wiser, and better, and happier, and more pros- 
perous than before ! 

Future events lie hid in the volume of Fate, but the 
intentions of men may be known by almost infallible 
indications. Passion and interest, the two mighty 
motives of human action, determine the Government of 
France to attempt the abolition of the British Empire ! 
and if, abandoned by God and our right arm, we should 
flinch in the conflict, that destruction will be operative 
to the full of their gigantic and monstrous imaginations ! 
— Harbours filled up with the ruins of their towns and 
arsenals, the Thames rendered a vast morass, by burying 
the Imperial City in her bosom — but I will not proceed 
in the horrible picture. 

Are we then, it may be asked, to wage eternal war ? — 
No ; a glorious resistance leads to an honourable peace. 
The French people have been long weary of the war ; 
their spirit has been forced by a system which must end 
in the failure of the engagement to give them the plunder 
of this country. They will awake from their dream, and 
raise a cry for peace, which their government will not 
dare to resist. The monarchs of Europe must now begin 
clearly to perceive that their fate hangs on the destiny 
of England ; they will unite to compel a satisfactory 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 193 

peace on a broad foundation ; and peace, when war has 
been tried to the utmost, will probably be permanent. 
A few years of wise economy and redoubled industry 
will place us again on the rising scale ; and if the pres- 
sure of the times may have rendered it necessary some- 
times to have cast a temporary veil over the statue of 
Liberty, she may again safely be shown in an unimpaired 
lustre. 

Of the following verses I have nothing to say : if it 
should be decided that the greatness of the object cannot 
bear out the mediocrity of the execution, I will not appeal 
from the decision. 

ODE TO MY COUNTEY. 

MDCCXCVIII. 
S. 1. 

Beitons ! hands and hearts prepare : 
The angry tempest threatens nigh. 
Deep-toned thunders roll in air, 
Lightnings thwart the livid sky ; 
Throned upon the winged storm. 
Fell Desolation rears her ghastly form, 
"Waves her black signal to her Hell-born brood, 
And lures them thus with promised blood : 

A. 1. 
" Drive, my sons, the storm amain ! 

Lo, the hated, envied land. 
Where Piety and Okdee reign. 
And Freedom dares maintain her stand. 
Have ye not sworn, by night and hell. 
These from the earth for ever to expel ? 
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Eush on, resistless, to your destined prey, 
Death and rapine point the way." 

E. 1. 

Britons ! stand firm ! with stout and dauntless heart 

Meet unappall'd the threatening boaster's rage ; 
Yours is the great, the unconquerable part, 
For your loved hearths and altars to engage, 
And sacred Liberty, more dear than life — 
Yours be the triumph in the glorious strife. 
Shall theft and murder braver deeds excite 
Than honest scorn of shame and heavenly love of right ? . 

S. 2. 

Turn the bright historic page ! 

Still in glory's tented field, 
Albion's arms, for many an age. 

Have taught proud Gallia's bands to yield. 
Are not we the sons of those 
"Whose steel-clad sires pursued the insulting foes, 
E'en to the centre of their wide domain, 
And bowed them to a Briton's reign ? * 

A. 2. 

Kings, in modest triumph led, 

Graced the sable Victor's arms : t 
His conquering lance, the battle's dread ; — 
His courtesy the conquered charms. 
The lion-heart soft pity knows, 
To raise with soothing cares his prostrate foes ; 

* Henry VI. crowned at Pari.s. f The Black Prince. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 195 

The vanquished head true valour ne'er oppress'd, 
Nor shunn'd to succour the distress'd. 

E. 2. 
Spirit of great Elizabeth ! inspire 

High thoughts, high deeds, worthy our ancient fame ; 
Breathe through our ardent ranks the patriot fire, 
Kindled at Freedom's ever-hallowed flame ; 
Baffled and scorned, the Iberian tyrant found, 
Though half a world his iron sceptre bound. 
The gallant Amazon could sweep away, 
Armed with her people's love, the " Invincible " array. * 

S. 3. 
The Bold Usubper f firmly held 

The sword by splendid treasons gained ; 
And Gallia's fiery genius quelled, 

And Spain's presumptuous claims restrained : 
When lust of sway, by flattery fed, J 
To venturous deeds the youthful monarch led. 
In the full flow of victory's sw^elling tide 
Britain checked his power and pride. 

A. 3. 
To the great Batavian's name § 

Ceaseless hymns of triumph raise ! 
Scourge of tyrants, let his fame 
Live in songs of grateful praise. 
Thy turrets, Blenheim, || glittering to the sun, 
Tell of bright fields from warlike Gallia won ; 



* The Spanish Armada. t Oliver Cromwell. X Louis XIV. 
§ William III. || Blenheim, Eamilles, &c., &c. 



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Tell how the mighty monarch mourned in vain 
His impious wish the world to chain. 

E. 3. 

And ye famed heroes, late retired to heaven, 

Whose setting glories still the skies illume, 
Bend from the blissful seats to virtue given — 
Avert your long-defended country's doom. 
Earth from her utmost bounds shall wondering tell 
How victory's meed ye gained, or conquering fell ; 
Britain's dread thunders bore from pole to pole. 
Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll. 

S. 4. 

Names embalmed in honour's shrine, 

Sacred to immortal praise. 
Patterns of glory, born to shine 
In breathing arts or pictured lays : 
See Wolfe, by yielding numbers pressed, 
Expiring smile, and sink on victory's breast ! 
See Minden's plains and Biscay's billowy bay 
Deeds of deathless fame display. 

A. 4. 

O ! tread with awe the sacred gloom, 

Patriot Virtue's last retreat; 
Where Glory, on the trophied tomb, 
Joys their merit to repeat ; 
There Chatham lies, whose master-hand 
Guided through seven bright years the mighty band, 
That round his urn, where grateful Memory weeps, 
Each in his hallowed marble sleeps. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 197 

E. 4. 

Her brand accursed when civil discord hurled,* 

Britain alone the united world withstood, 
EoDNEY his fortune-favoured sails unfurled, 

And led three nation's chiefs to Thanies's flood. 
Firm on his rock the Veteran HERot stands ; 

Beneath his feet unheeded thunders roar ; 
Smiling in scorn, he sees the glittering bands 

Fly with repulse and shame old Calpe's hopeless 
shore. 

S. 5. 

Heirs or partners of their toils, 

Matchless heroes still we own ; 
Crowned with honourable spoils 
From the leagued nations won. 
On their high prows they proudly stand, 
The godlike guardians of their native land ; 
Lords of the mighty deep triumphant ride, 
Wealth and victory at their side. 

A. 5. 

Loyal, bold, and generous bands. 

Strenuous in their country's cause. 
Guard their cultivated lands. 
Their altars, liberties, and laws. 
On his firm, deep-founded throne. 
Great Brunswick sits — a name to fear unknown, 
With brow erect commands the glorious strife, 
Unawed, and prodigal of life. 

* American War. f Lord Heabhlield. 



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E. 5. 
Sons of fair Freedom's long-descended line, 

To Gallia's yoke shall Britons bend the neck ?- 
No ; in her cause though fate and hell combine 
To bury all in universal wreck, 
Of this fair Isle to make one dreary waste, 
Her greatness in her ruins only traced, — 
Arts, commerce, arms, sunk in one common grave- 
The man who dares to die will never live a slave. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 199 



No. XXIX. 

May 28, 1798. 
In a former number, we were enabled, by the com- 
munication of a classical correspondent, to compliment 
Citizen Muskein with an Address to his Gun-boats, 
imitated from a favourite Ode of Horace. Another (or 
perhaps the same) hand has obligingly furnished us 
with a composition, which we have no doubt will be 
equally acceptable to the citizen to whom it is ad- 
dressed. 

ODE TO THE DIEECTOE MEELTN. 

HOEACE, B. I., O. V. 

Who now from Naples, Eome, or Berlin, 
Creeps to thy blood-stained den, Meblin, 
"With diplomatic gold ? — to whom 
Dost thou give audience en costume ? 

King Citizen ! — How sure each state 
Thau bribes thy love shall feel thy hate ; 
Shall see the democratic storm 
Her commerce, laws, and arts deform. 

How credulous, to hope the bribe 
Could purchase peace from Meklin's tribe ! 
Whom, faithless as the waves or wind, 
No oaths restrain, no treaties bind. 

For us — beneath yon sacred roof, 
The Naval Flags and arms of proof, 
By British valour nobly bought, 
Show how true safety must be sought ! 



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[Thiers, in his History of the French Eevolution, frequently 
asserts the incorrupt ibihty (with the exception of Barras) of 
the French Directory. But Alison, in his History, exposes the 
extraordinary conduct of M. de Talleyrand, then Minister of 
Foreign Affairs, towards the Envoys from the United States of 
America, who complained that an innnense niimber of American 
vessels had been seized by the French Government under a 
decree of Jan., 1798, which directed that all ships having for 
their cargoes, in whole or in part, any English merchandise, 
should be held lawful prize, whoever was the proprietor thereof, 
from the single circumstance of its coming from England or its 
foreign settlements. The Envoys were told that nothing could 
be done till their Government had advanced a sum equal to 
1,280,000L as a loan, and 50,000/. as a douceur to the Directors. 
These terms were, of course, indignantly rejected. The Hanse 
Towns, too, only obtained licenses to navigate the high seas by 
the secret payment of 150,000/. to the Republican rulers. — Ed.] 



[LYRICS OF HORACE. BOOK I., ODE V. 

TRANSLATED BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM. 

What slender youth, all essenced o'er, 
In sweet alcove or rosy bower-, 
Now woos thee, PyiTha, to be kind ? 
For whom these tresses dost thou bind. 
Thus simply neat ? O how shall he, 
Poor youth ! bewail the boisterous sea. 
Rough with black tempests ! How accuse 
Capricious Gods, and broken vows ! 

Fond dupe ! he hopes — so sweet that kiss — 
Thou'lt still be witching, still be his ! 
"What treacherous gales beset his way, 
Ah ! little knows he ! Hapless they. 
Who ne'er thy faithless smiles have tried ! 
— That I have 'scaped the whelming tide, 
A tablet and my dripping vest. 
Hung up m Neptune's fane, attest. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 201 



No. XXX. 

June 4, 1798. 
OuB ingenious correspondent, Me. Higgins, has not 
been idle. The deserved popularity of the extracts which 
we have been enabled to give from his two didactic 
poems, the Progret^s of Man, and the Loves of the Trkuif/les, 
has obtained for us the communications of several other 
works which he has in hand, all framed upon the same 
principle, and directed to the same end. The propaga- 
tion of the New System of Philosophy forms, as he has 
himself candidly avowed to us, the main object of all his 
writings. A system, comprehending not politics only 
and religion, but morals and manners, and generally 
whatever goes to the composition or holding together of 
human society ; in all of which a total change and re- 
volution is absolutely necessary (as he contends) for the 
advancement of our common nature to its true dignity, 
and to the summit of that perfection which the combina- 
tion of matter, called Man, is by its innate enei'gies 
capable of attaining. 

Of this system, while the sublimer and more scientific 
branches are to be taught by the splendid and striking 
medium of didactic poetry, or ratiocination in rhyme, 
illustrated with such paintings and portraitures of 
essences and their attributes as may lay hold of the 
imagination while they perplex the judgment ;— the 
more ordinary parts, such as relate to the conduct of 
common life and the regulation of social feelings, are 
naturally the subject of a less elevated style of writing ; 



202 POETRY OF 

of a style which speaks to the eye as well as to the ear, 
— in short, of dramatic poetry and scenic representation. 

"With this view," says Mk. Higgins (for we love to 
quote the very words of this extraordinary and indefatig- 
able writer),— " with this view," says he, in a letter 
dated from his study in St. Mary Axe, the window of 
which looks upon the parish pump, — " with this view I 
have turned my thoughts more particularly to the 
German stage, and have composed — in imitation of the 
most popular pieces of that country, which have already 
met with so general reception and admiration in this — a 
Play ; which, if it has a proper run, will, I think, do 
much to unhinge the present notions of men with regard 
to the obligations of civil society, and to substitute, in 
lieu of a sober contentment, and regular discharge of the 
duties incident to each man's particular situation, a wild 
desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance, — an 
aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither be 
described nor understood, — a contemptuous disgust at 
all that is, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought 
to be; — to operate, in short, a general discharge of every 
man (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws, 
divine or human, which local customs, immemorial 
habits, and multiplied examples, impose upon him ; and 
to set them about doing what they like, where they like, 
when they like, and how they like, — without reference to 
any lav/ but their own will, or to any consideration of 
how others may be affected by their conduct. 

" When this is done, my dear sir," continues Mr. H. 
(for he writes very confidentially) — " you see that a great 
step is gained towards the dissolution of the frame of 
every existing community. I say nothing of Governments, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 203 

as tlieiv fall is of course implicated in that of the social 
system ; — and you have long known that I hold every 
Government (that acts by coercion and restriction — by 
laws made by the few to bind the many) as a mahmi iu 
se, — an evil to be eradicated, — a nuisance to be abated, 
— by force, if force be practicable ; if not, by the artillery 
of reason, by pamphlets, speeches, toasts at club-dinners, 
and though last, not least, by didactic poems. 

" But where would be the advantage of the destruction 
of this or that Government, if the forixi of Society itself 
were to be suffered to continue such as that another 
must necessarily arise out of it and over it ?— Society, 
my dear sir, in its present state, is a hydra. Cut off one 
head, — another presently sprouts out, and your labour 
is to begin again. At best you can only hope to find it a 
polypus ; — where, by cutting off the head, you are some- 
times fortunate enough to find a tail (which answers all 
the same purposes) spring up in its place. This, we 
know, has been the case in France ; the only country iu 
which the great experiment of regeneration has been 
tried with anything like a fair chance of success. 

" Destroy the frame of society, — decompose its parts, 
— -and see the elements fightiug one against another, — 
insulated and individual, — every man for himself (stripped 
of prejudice, of bigotry, and of feeling for others) against 
the remainder of his species ; — and there is then some 
hope of a totally new order of tilings, — of a Radical Reform 
in the present corrupt system of the world. 

"The German Theatre appears to proceed on this 
judicious plan. And I have endeavoured to contribute 
my mite towards extending its effect and its popularity. 
There is one obvious advantage attending this mode of 



204 POETRY OF 

teaching ; — that it can proportion the infractions of law, 
rehgion, or moraUty, which it recommends, to the 
capacity of a reader or spectator. If you tell a student, 
or an apprentice, or a merchant's clerk, of the virtue of a 
Brutus, or of the splendour of a La Fayette, you may 
excite his desire to be equally conspicuous ; but how is 
he to set about it ? Where is he to find the tyrant to 
murder ? How is he to provide the monarch to be im- 
prisoned, and the national guards to be reviewed on a 
white horse ? — But paint the beauties of forcjenj to him 
in glowing colours ; — show him that the presumption of 
virtue is in favour of rapine and occasional murder on 
the highway — and he presently understands you. The 
highway is at hand — the till or the counter is within 
reach. These haherdasliers^ lieroics come home to the 
business and the bosoms of men. — And you may readily 
make ten foi>tpads, where you would not have materials 
nor opportunity for a single tyrannicide. 

" The subject of the piece which I herewith transmit 
to you is taken from common or middling life ; and its 
merit is that of teaching the most lofty truths in the 
most humble style, and deducing them from the most 
ordinary occurrences. Its moral is obvious and easy ; 
and is one frequently inculcated by the German dramas 
which I have had the good fortune to see ; being no other 
than ' the reciprocal duties of one or more husbands to one or 
more ivives, and to the children who may happen to arise oiit 
of this complicated and endearing] connectioii'. The plot, 
indeed, is formed by the combination of the plots of tivo 
of tlie most popular of these plays (in the same way as 
Terence was wont to combine two stories of Menander's). 
The characters are such as the admirers of these plays 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 205 

will recognise for their familiar acquaintances. There 
are the usual ingredients of imprisonments, post-houses 
and horns, and appeals to angels and devils. I have 
omitted only the sirewing, to which English ears are not 
yet sufficiently accustomed. 

"I transmit at the same time a Prologue, which in 
some degree breaks the matter to the audience. About 
the song of Rogero, at the end of the first Act, I am less 
anxious than about any other part of the performance, 
as it is, in fact, literally translated from the composition 
of a young German friend of mine, an Illumine, of whom 
I bought the original for three-and-sixpence. It will be 
a satisfaction to those of your readers who may not at 
first sight hit upon the tune, to learn that it is setting by 
a hand of the first eminence. — I send also a rough sketch 
of the plot, and a few occasional notes. — -The geograplnj 
is by the young gentleman of the Morning Clironide." 

THE EOVEES; OR, THE DOUBLE 

ARRANGEMENT. 

^iiimatis ^crsonir. 

Prior of the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, very corpulent and 

cruel. 
Eogero, a prisoner in the Abbey, in love with Matilda 

POTTINGEN. 

Casimere, a Polish emigrant, in Dembrowsky's legion, married 

to Cecilia, but having several children by Matilda. 
Puddingfield and Beefington, English noblemen, exiled by 

the tyranny of King John, previous to the signature of 

Magna Charta. 
Eoderic, Count of Saxe Weimar, a bloody tyrant, with red 

hair, and an amorous complexion. 
Cta.spar, the minister of the Count — author of Kugero's con- 

tinement. 



206 POETRY OF 

Young Pottixgen, brother to Matilda. 

Matilda Pottingen, in love with Rogero, and mother to 

Casimere's children. 
Cecilia Muckenfeld, wife to Casimere. 
Landlady, Waiter, Grenadiers, Troubadours, &c., &c. 
Pantalowsky and Britchinda, children of Matilda, by 

Casimere. 
Joachim, Jabel, and Amarantha, children of Matilda, by 

Rogero. 
Children of Casimere and Cecilia, with their respective 

Niirses. 
Several Children — fathers and mothers unknown. 

The Scene lies in the town of Weimar, and the neighbourhood of 
the Abbey of Quedlinburgh. 

Time from the I2th to the present century. 

PEOLOGUE.* 

in character. 

Too long the triumphs of our early times, 
"With civil discord and with regal crimes, 
Have stain'd these boards ; while Shakespeare's pen has 

shown 
Thoughts, manners, men, to modern days unknown. 
Too long have Eome and Athens been the rage ; 

\_AppIause. 
And classic Buskins soil'd a British stage. 

To-night our bard, who scorns pedantic rules, 
His plot has borrow'd from the German schools ; 
The German schools — where no dull maxims bind 
The bold expansion of the electric mind. 

[* Parodied from Pope's Prologae to Gato. — Eu.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 207 

Fix'd to no period, circled by no space, 

He leaps the flaming bounds of time and place. 

Round the dark confines of the forest raves, 

With gevtle Eobbers* stocks his gloomy caves ; 

Tells how Prime Ministers t are shocking things, 

And reigning Dul-es as bad as tyrant Kings ; 

How to hvo swains J one nymph her vows may give, 

And how two damsels;}: with one lover live ! 

Delicious scenes ! — such scenes our bard displays. 

Which, crown'd with German, sue for British, praise. 

Slow are the steeds, that through Germania's roads 
With hempen rein the slumbering post-boy goads ; 
Slow is the slumbering post-boy, who proceeds 
Thro' deep sands floundering on those tardy steeds ; 
More slow, more tedious, from his husky throat. 
Twangs through the twisted horn the struggling note. 

These truths confess'd — Oh ! yet, ye travell'd few, 
Germania's plays with eyes unjaundiced view ! 

* See The Robbers, a German tragedy [by Schiller], in which 
robbery is put in so fascinating a hght, that the whole of a 
German University went upon the highway in consequence of it. 

t See Cabal and Lore, a German tragedy [by Schiller], very 
severe against prime mmisters and reigning Dukes of Bruns- 
wick. This admu'able performance very judiciously reprobates 
the hire of German troops for the Avierican war in the reign of 
Qiieen Elizabeth, a practice which would undoubtedly have 
been highly discreditable to that wise and patriotic princess, 
not to say wholly unnecessary — there being no American war 
at that particular time. 

X See The Stranger; or, Reformed Houselieeper, in which the 
former of these naorals is beautifully illustrated ; and Stella, a 
genteel German comedy [by Goethe], which ends with placing 
a man bodkin between two wives, like Thames between his two 
banks m The Critic. Nothing can be more edifj'ing than these 
two dramas. I am shocked to hear that there are some people 
who think them ridiculoiis. 



208 POETKY OP 

View and approve ! — though in each passage fine 

The faint translation* mock the genuine line ; 

Though the nice ear the erring sight belie, 

For U til-ice dottpd is pronounced like /;" [Applav>ir. 

Yet oft the scene shall nature's fire impart, 

Warm/ro?;< the breast, and glowing to the heart! 

Ye travell'd few, attend ! — On yon our bard 
Builds his fond hope ! Do you his genius guard ! 

\_A2)'plavife . 
Nor let succeeding generations say 
A British audience damnd a German play ! 

[Lotid and continued A-ppIausei>'. 
Flash of lighining. — The ghost of Prologue's Grandmother 
by the Father's side, appears to soft music, in a vjhite tiffany 
riding-hood. Prologue hneels to receive her blessing, ivhich 
she gives in a solemn and affecting manner, the audience claf- 
ping and crying all the while. — Flash of lightning. — PROLOGUE 
and his Grandmother sink through the trap-doors. 

THE ROVEES; OR, THE DOUBLE 
ARRANGEMENT. 

ACT I. SCENE I. 
Scene represents a room at an inn, at Weimar — On one side of 
the stage the bar-room, with jellies, lem^ons in nets, syllabubs, 

* 'i'liese are the warnings very properly given to readers, to 
beware how they judge of what they cannot understand. Tims 
if the translation runs, " lightning of mg soul, fidgation of angels, 
sulphur of hell," we should recollect that this is not coarse or 
strange in the German language when applied by a lover to his 
mistress ; but the English has nothing precisely parallel to the 
original iWulijilvausc ^^vch.ingrlicltcn, which means rather emana- 
tion of the archangelic nature — or to -Smcllmgiikcrn TJaiihclf cr, which, 
if literally rendered, would signify made of stuff of the same odour 
whereof the devil makes flambeaux. See Schuttenbriioh on the 
German idiom. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 209 

and part of a cold roast foivl, d-c. — On the opiJosite side, a ivin- 
dow looking into the street, through ivhichjJersons {inhabitants of 
Weimar) are seen passing to and fro in apparent agitation — 
Matilda appears in a great coat and riding-habit, seated at 
the corner of the dinner-table, which is covered with a clean 
huckaback cloth ; plates and napkins, with buck' s-horn-han died 
knives and forks, are laid, as if for four persons. 

Mat. Is it impossible for me to have dinner sooner ? 

Land. Madam, the Brunswick post-waggon is not yet 
come in, and the ordinary is never before two o'clock. 

Mat. [ With a look expressive of disappointment, hut imme- 
diately recomposing herself.'] Well, then, I must have 
patience. \_Exit Landlady.'] Oh Casimere ! — How often 
have the thoughts of thee served to amuse these moments 
of expectation ! — -What a difference, alas ! — Dinner — it is 
taken away as soon as over, and we regret it not ! — It 
returns again with the return of appetite. — The beef of 
to-morrow will succeed to the mutton of to-day, as the 
mutton of to-day succeeded to the veal of yesterday. 
But when once the heart has been occupied by a beloved 
object, in vain would we attempt to supply the chasm by 
another. How easily are our desires transferred from 
dish to dish ! — Love only, dear, delusive, delightful love, 
restrains our wandering appetites, and confines them to 
a particular gratification ! 

Post-horn blows; re-enter Landlady. 
Land. Madam, the post-waggon is just come in with 
only a single gentlewoman. 

Mat. Then show her up — and let us have dinner 
instantly ; [Landlady going] and remember — \after a 
momenfs recollection, and with great earnestness] — remem- 
ber the toasted cheese. [Exit Landlady. 

14 



210 POETEY OF 

Cecilia enters, in a hrown doth riding-dress, as if just 
alighted from the post-waggon. 

Mat. Madam, you seem to have had an unpleasant 
journey, if I may judge from the dust on your riding- 
habit. 

Cec. The way was dusty, madam, but the weather 
was dehghtfuh It recalled to me those blissful moments 
when the rays of desire first vibrated through my soul. 

Mat. [^Asid.e.'] Thank Heaven ! I have at last found 
a heart which is in unison with my own. \To Cecilia] 
— Yes, I understand you — the first pulsation of senti- 
ment — the silver tones upon the yet unsounded harp 

Cec. The dawn of life — when this blossom \_putting her 
hand upon her heart] first expanded its petals to the pene- 
trating dart of love ! 

Mat. Yes— the time — the golden time, when the first 
beams of the morning meet and embrace one another ! — 
The blooming blue upon the yet unplucked plum ! 

Cec. Your countenance grows animated, my dear 
madam. 

Mat. And yours too is glowing with illumination. 

Cec. I had long been looking out for a congenial 
spirit ! — my heart was withered — but the beams of yours 
have rekindled it. 

Mat. a sudden thought strikes me — Let us swear an 
eternal friendship. 

Cec. Let us agree to live together ! 

Mat. Willingly. [With rapidity and earnestness. 

Cec. Let us embrace. [Tliey embrace. 

Mat. Yes; I too have loved! — you, too, like me, have 
been forsaken. 

[Douhtingly, and as if with a desire to he informed. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 211 

Cec. Too true ! 

Both. Ah these men ! these men ! 

Landlady enters, and places a leg of mutton on the table, xoith sour 
kraut and prune sauce; then a small dish of black puddings — 
Cecilia and Matilda appear to take no notice of her. 

Mat. Oh, Casmiere ! 

Geo. {Aside.'] Casimere ! that name ! — Oh, my heart, 
how it is distracted with anxiety. 

Mat. Heavens ! Madam, you turn pale. 

Cec. Nothing — a shght megrim — with your leave, I 
will retire — 

Mat. I will attend you. 

[Exeunt Matilda and Cecilia ; Manent Landlady and Waiter, 
with the dinner on the table. 

Land. Have you carried the dinner to the prisoner in 
the vaults of the abbey ? 

Waitbb. Yes — Pease soup, as usual — with the scrag 
end of a neck of mutton. The emissary of the Count 
was here again this morning, and offered me a large sum 
of money if I would consent to poison him. 

Land. Which you refused? [With hesitation and anxiety. 

Waiter. Can you doubt it ? [With indignation. 

Land. [Recovering herself, and drawing up with an ex- 
jyressfon of dignity.'] The conscience of a poor man is as 
valuable to him as that of a prince . . . 

Waitee. It ought to be still more so, iu proportion as 
it is generally more pure. 

Land. Thou say'st truly. Job. 

Waiter. [With eidliusiasni.] He who can spurn at 
wealth when proffered as the price of crime, is greater 
than a prince. 



212 POETRY OF 

Post-horn blows. — Enter Casimere {in a travelling dress, a light 
blue great coat ivith large metal buttons, his hair in a long queue, 
but tivisted at the end ; a large Kevenhuller hat ; a cane in his 
hand). 

Cas. Here, "Waiter, pull off my boots, and bring me a 
pair of slippers. [Exit Waiter.] And hark'ye, my lad, 
a basin of water {rubbing his handi] and a bit of soap. I 
have not washed since I began my journey. 

Waiter. {Anstcering from behind the door'\ Yes, Sir. 

Cas. Well, Landlady, what company are we to have ? 

Land. Only two gentlewomen, Sir. — They are just 
stept into the next room — they will be back again in a 
minute. 

Cas. Where do they come from ? 

[All this while the Waiter re-enters with the basin and water ; 
Casimere indls off his boots, takes a napkin from the table, 
and washes hi'i face and hands. 

Land. There is one of them, I think, comes from 
Nuremburgh. 

Cas. [Aside.] From Nuremburgh ! [nntJi eagerness] her 
name ! 

Land. Matilda. 

Cas. [Aside^^ How does this idiot woman torment me ! 
—What else ? 

Land. I can't recollect. 

Cas. Oh, agony ! [In a paroxijsm of agitation. 

Waiter. See here, her name upon the travelling trunk 
— -Matilda Pottingen. 

Cas. Ecstasy ! ecstasy ! [Embracing the Waiter. 

Land. You seem to be acquainted with the lady — shall 
I call her? 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 213 

Cas. Instantly — instantly — tell her her loved, her long- 
lost — tell her 

Land. Shall I tell her dhiner is ready? 

Cas. Do so— and in the meanwhile I will look after 
my portmanteau. [Exeunt severallij. 

Scene changes to a subterranean vault in the Abbey of Quedlivhurgh, 
u'ith coffins, 'scutcheons, death's heads and crossbones — toads and 
other loathsome reptiles are seen traversing the obscurer parts of the 
stage. — Eogero appears, in chains, in a suit of rusty armour, ivith 
his beard grown, and a cap of a grotesque form ttpon his head — 
beside him a crock, or pitcher, supposed to contain his daily allow- 
ance of sustenance. — A long silence, during lohich the wind is 
heard to ivhistle through the caverns. — Eogero rises, and comes 
slowly forward, loith his arms folded. 

EoG. Eleven years ! it is now eleven years since I was 
first immured in this living sepulchre — the cruelty of a 
Minister — the perfidy of a Monk — yes, Matilda ! for thy 
sake — alive amidst the dead — chained — coffined — con- 
fined — cut off from the converse of my fellow-men. Soft ! 
— what have we here ! [stumbles over a bundle of sticks.] 
This cavern is so dark that I can scarcely distinguish the 
objects under my feet. Oh — the register of my caj)tivity. 
Let me see; how stands the account? [Takes 2i/p the sticks, 
and turns them over loiih a melanclioJij air; then stands silent 
for a few minutes, as if absorbed in ccdctdation.] — Eleven 
years and fifteen days ! — Hah ! the twenty-eighth of 
August ! How does the recollection of it vibrate on my 
heart ! It was on this day that I took my last leave of 
my Matilda. It was a summer evening ; her melting 
hand seemed to dissolve in mine, as I prest it to my 
bosom. Some demon whispered me that I should never 
see her more. I stood gazing on the hated vehicle which 



214 POETRY OF 

was conveying her away for ever. The tears were petri- 
fied under my eyehds. My heart was crystalHzed with 
agony. Anon — I looked along the road. The diligence 
seemed to diminish every instant ; I felt my heart beat 
against its prison, as if anxious to leap out and overtake 
it. My soul whirled round as I watched the rotation of 
the hinder wheels. A long trail of glory followed after 
her, and mingled with the dust ; it was the emanation of 
Divinity, luminous with love and beauty, like the splen- 
dour of the setting sun ; but it told me that the sun of 
my joys was sunk for ever. Yes, here in the depths of 
an eternal dungeon, in the nursing cradle of hell, the 
suburbs of perdition, in a nest of demons, where despair 
in vain sits brooding over the putrid eggs of hope ; where 
agony wooes the embrace of death ; where patience, be- 
side the bottomless pool of despondency, sits angling for 
impossibilities. Yet, even here, to behold her, to embrace 
her ! Yes, Matilda, whether in this dark abode, amidst 
toads and spiders, or in a royal palace, amidst the more 
loathsome reptiles of a court, would be indifferent to me; 
angels would shower down their hymns of gratulation 
upon our heads, while fiends would envy the eternity of 

suffering love Soft, what air was that? it 

seemed a sound of more than human warblings. Again ! 
\JAstens attentively for some minutes.^ Only the wind ; it is 
well, however ; it reminds me of that melancholy air, 
which has so often solaced the hours of my captivity. 
Let me see whether the damps of this dungeon have not 
yet injured my guitar. [^I'akes Ms guitar, tunes it, and 
begins the folloioing air, loith a full accompaniment of violins 
from: the orchestra. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 215 

\_Air, Laiderna Magica.] 
SONG. 

BY EOGEEO.^ 
I. 

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view 

This dungeon that I'm rotting in, 

I think of those companions true 

Who studied with me at the U — 

— niversity of Gottingen — 

— niversity of Gottingen. 

[Wee2}s, and pulls out a blue kerchief, loith which he 
ivipes his eyes; gazing tenderly at it, he proceeds — 

II. 

Sweet kerchief, check'd with heavenly bhie, 

Which once my love sat knotting in ! — • 
Alas ! Matilda the)i was true ! 
At least I thought so at the XJ — 
— niversity of Gottingen — 
— niversity of Gottingen. 
[At the repetition of this line Rogero clanJcs his 
chains in cadence. 

III. 
Barbs ! Barbs ! alas ! how swift you flew 

Her neat post-waggon trotting in ! 
Ye bore Matilda from my view ; 
Forlorn I languish'd at the U — 
— niversity of Gottingen — 
— niversity of Gottingen. 

IV. 

This faded form ! this pallid hue ! 
This blood my veins is clotting in, 



216 POETRY OF 

My years are many — they were few 
"When first I entered at the U — • 
— niversity of Gottingen — 
— niversity of Gottingen. 

V. 

There first for thee my passion grew, 
Sweet ! sweet Matilda Pottingen ! 
Thou wast the daughter of my tu — 
— tor, law professor at the U — 
— niversity of Gottingen ~ 
— niversity of Gottingen. 

VI. 

Sun, moon, and thou vain world, adieu, 

That kings and priests are plotting in : 
Here doomed to starve on water gru — 
— el,'^ never shall I see the U — 
—niversity of Gottingen — 
— niversity of Gottingen. 

[During the last stanza Eogero clashes his head re- 
peatedly against the walls of his prison; and, 
finally, so hard as to produce a visible contusion; 
he then throws himself on the floor in an agony. 
The curtain drops; the music still continuing to 
play till it is loholly fallen. 

* A manifest error, since it appears from the Waiter's conver- 
sation (p. 211) that Rogero was not doomed to starve on water- 
gruel, but on pease-soup, which is a much better thing. Pos- 
sibly the length of Rogero's imprisonment had impaired his 
memory ; or he might wish to make thmgs appear worse than 
they really were ; which is very natural, I think, in such a case 
as this poor unfortimate gentleman's. — Printer's Devil. 

[The character of Eogero is a quiz upon Sir Robert Adair, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 217 

who received his edncation at Gottingen, and fell in love with 
his tutor's daughter. His relative, Lord Albemarle, says in 
his Reminiscences : "Throughout life my kinsman was an enthu- 
siastic admirer of the fair sex, which he generally ' loved, not 
wisely, but too well'". He married, in 1805, Mdlle. Angelique 
Gabrielle, daughter of the Marquis d'Hazincoiu't and the Com- 
tesse de Champagne. 

Adair was the son of Mr. Robert Adair, sergeant- surgeon to 
K. George III., by his wife Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter 
of Wm. Anne, second Earl of Albemarle. He was educated at 
Westminster School and Gottingen University ; called to the 
Bar, but never practised. He contested Camelford in 1796 ; 
and was M.P. for Appleby, 1799-1802, for Camelford, 1802-1812. 
He was sent by Fox as Minister Plenipotentiary to Vienna in 
1806 ; and by his old adversary Canning to Constantinople in 
1808 ; and also to Berlin. He was Ambassador to Constanti- 
nople, 1809-11, and to Belgium, 1831-5. He was a facile writer, 
and wrote several spirited pamphlets, including defences of his 
relatives, Francis, Duke of Bedford, and Admiral Keppel, Fox, 
and other Whigs. He coatributed to the Political Eclogues a 
poem called Margaret Nicholson, in which George III., Pitt, 
Jenkinson, &c., were ridiculed, and the Song of Scrutina (on the 
" Westminster Scrutiny "), in the style of Ossian, in the Proba- 
tionary Odes for the Laurcateship. He was the author also of an 
account of his Missvm to the Court of Vienna; and his Negotia- 
tions for the Peace of the Dardanelles : 3 vols., 8vo. For his ser- 
vices in the latter business he was made G.C.B. He was born 
24th May, 1763, and died 3rd Oct., 1855. 

There is a curious ch'cumstance connected with the compo- 
sition of this song, the first five stanzas of which were written 
by Canning. Having been accidentally seen, previous to its 
publication, by Pitt, who was cognisant of the proceedings of 
the " Anti- Jacobin " writers, he was so amused with it, that he 
took up a pen and composed the last stanza on the spot. — Ed.] 

[This drama was produced at the Haymarket Theatre, July 
26, 1811, with alterations and additions, and some mtroductory 
matter, which contained smart hits at the Quadrupeds, which 
then desecrated the stage of Covent Garden Theatre. Liston 
performed Rogero ; Munden, Casimere ; Mrs. Glover, Matilda; 
Mrs. Gibbs, Cecilia. The following Prologue, written by George 
Colman the younger, in imitation of Pope's prologue to Cato, 
was spoken by EUiston : — 

To lull the soul by spurious strokes of art, 
To warp the genius, and mislead the heart ; 



218 



POETRY OF 



To make mankind revere wives gone astray,* 

Love pious sons who rob on the highway ; t 

For this the foreign muses trod our stage 

Commanding German schools to be the rage. 

Hail to sucli schools ! Oh, Une false feeling, hail ! 

Thou badst non-natural nature to prevail ; 

Through thee, soft super-sentiment arose. 

Musk to the mind like civet to the nose ; 

Till fainting taste (as invalids do wrong), 

Snuff'd the sick perfume, and grew weakly strong. 

Dear Johnny Bull ! you boast much resolution. 

With, thanks to Heaven ! a glorious Constitution : 

Your taste, recovered half from foreign quacks, 

Takes airings, now, on English horses' backs ; 

While every modern bard may raise his name. 

If not on lasting ]>raise, on stable fame. 

Think that to Germans you have given no check. 

Think how each actor hors'd has risk'd his neck ; 

You've shewn them favour : Oh, then, once more shew it 

To this night's Awjlo-Uerman, Horse-Play Poet! — Ed.] 



* Vide The Stranger. 



t Lovers' Votes. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 219 



No. XXXI. 

June 11, 1798. 
We have received, in the course of the last week, 
several long, and to say the truth, dull letters, from 
unknown hands, reflecting in very severe terms on Me. 
HiGGiNS, for having, as it is affirmed, attempted to pass 
upon the world, as a faithful sample of the productions 
of the German theatre, a performance no way resembling 
any of those pieces which have so late excited, and 
which bid fair to engross, the admiration of the British 
public. 

As we cannot but consider ourselves as the guardians 
of Mb. Higgins's literary reputation, in respect to every 
work of his which is conveyed to the world through the 
medium of our paper (though, what we think of the 
danger of his principles we have already sufficiently 
explained for ourselves, and have, we trust, succeeded in 
putting our readers upon their guard against them) — we 
hold ourselves bound not only to justify the fidelity of 
the imitation, but (contrary to our original intention) 
to give a further specimen of it in our present number, in 
order to bring the question more fairly to issue between 
our author and his calumniators. 

In the first place we are to observe, that Mr. Higgins 
professes to have taken his notion of German plays 
wholly from the translations which have appeared in our 
language. If they are totally dissimilar from the originals, 
Mr. H. may undoubtedly have been led into error; but 
the fault is in the translators, not in him. That he does 
not differ widely from the models which he proposed to 



220 POETRY OF 

himself, we have it in our power to prove satisfactorily, 
and might have done so in our last number, by subjoin- 
ing to each particular passage of his play the scene in 
some one or other of the German plays which he had in 
view when he wrote it. These parallel passages were 
faithfully pointed out to us by Mr. H. with that candour 
which marks his character ; and if they were suppressed 
by us (as in truth they were), on our heads be the blame, 
whatever it may be. Little, indeed, did we think of the 
imputation which the omission would bring upon Mr. H., 
as in fact our principal reason for it was the apprehension 
that, from the extreme closeness of the imitation in most 
instances, he would lose in praise for invention more than 
he would gain in credit for fidelity. 

The meeting between Matilda and Cecilia, for example, 
in the first act of The Rovers, and their sudden intimacy, 
has been censured as unnatural. Be it so. It is taken, 
almost word fo7' ivonJ , from Stella, a German (or professedly 
a German) piece now much in vogue; from which also the 
catastrophe of Mr. Higgins's play is in part borrowed, 
so far as relates to the agreement to which the ladies 
come, as the reader will see by and bye, to share Casi- 
mere between them. 

The dinner-scene is copied partly from the published 
translation of The Stranrjer, and partly from the first 
scene of Stella. The song of Eogero, with which the 
first act concludes, is admitted on all hands to be in the 
very first taste ; and if no German original is to be 
found for it, so much the worse for the credit of German 
literature. 

An objection has beeii made by one anonymous letter- 
writer to the names of Puddingfield and Beefington, as 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 221 

little likely to have been assigned to English characters 
by any author of taste or discernment. In answer to 
this objection we have, in the first place, to admit, that 
a small, ai:id we hope not an unwarrantable, alteration 
has been made by us since the MS. has been in our 
hands. These names stood originally Puddincrantz and 
Beefinstern, which sounded to our ears as being liable, 
especially the latter, to a ridiculous inflection — a diffi- 
culty that could only be removed by furnishing them 
with English terminations. With regard to the more 
substantial syllables of the names, our author proceeded,, 
in all probability, on the authority of Goldoni, who, 
though not a German, is an Italian writer of considerable 
reputation ; and who, having heard that the English 
v^ere distinguished for their love of liberty and beef, has. 
judiciously compounded the two words Runnymede and 
Beef, and thereby produced an English nobleman, whom 
he styles Lord Runnyheef. 

To dwell no longer on particular passages, the best 
way perhaps of explaining the whole scope and view of 
Mr. H.'s imitation will be to transcribe the short sketch 
of the plot which that gentleman transmitted to us, 
together with his drama, and which it is perhaps the 
more necessary to give at length, as, the limits of our 
paper not allowing of the publication of the whole piece, 
some general knowledge of its main design may be 
acceptable to our readers, in order to enable them ta 
judge of the several extracts which we lay before them. 

PLOT. 
Eogero, son of the late minister of the Count of Saxe Wei- 
mar, having while he was at college, fallen desperately in love 
with Matilda Pottingen, daughter of his tutor, Doctor Engel- 



222 POETBY OF 

bertixs Pottingen, Professor of Civil Law ; and Matilda evidently 
retiu'ning his passion, the Doctor, to prevent ill consequences, 
sends his daughter on a visit to her aunt in Wetteravia, vi^here 
she becomes acquainted with Casimere, a Polish Officer, who 
happens to be quartered near her aunt's, and has several chil- 
dren by him. 

Eoderic, Count of Saxe AVeimar, a prince of a tyrannical and 
licentious disposition, has for his Prime Minister and favourite 
Gaspar, a crafty villain, who had risen to his post by first ruin- 
ing, and then putting to death, Eogero's father. Gaspar, 
apprehensive of the power and popularity which the young 
Eogero may enjoy at his return to Com:t, seizes the occasion of 
his intrigue with Matilda (of which he is apprized officially by 
Doctor Pottingen) to procure from his master an order for the 
recall of Eogero from college, and for committing him to the 
care of the Prior of the Abbey of Quedlinburgh, a priest, 
rapacious, savage, and sensual, and devoted to Gaspar's interests 
— sending at the same time private orders to the Prior to con- 
fine him in a dungeon. 

Here Eogero languishes many years. His daily sustenance 
is administered to him through a grated opening at the top of 
a cavern, by the landlady of the Golden Eagle at Weimar, with 
whom Gaspar contracts, in the prince's name, for his support ; 
intending, and more than once endeavom'ing, to corrupt the 
waiter to mingle poison with the food, in order that he may get 
rid of Eogero for ever. 

In the meantime, Casimere, having been called away from 
the neighbourhood of Matilda's residence to other quarters, 
becomes enamoured of and marries Cecilia, by whom he has 
a family ; and whom he likewise deserts after a few years' co- 
habitation, on pretence of business which calls him to Kamt- 
schatka. 

Doctor Pottingen, now grown old and infirm, and feeling the 
want of his daughter's society, sends young Pottingen in search 
>of her, with strict injunctions not to return without her ; and 
to bring with her either her present lover Casimere, or, should 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 223 

that not be possible, Rogero himself, if he can find him ; the 
Doctor having set his heart upon seeing his children comfort- 
ably settled before his death. Matilda, about the same period, 
quits her aimt's in search of Casimere ; and Cecilia, having been 
advertised (by an anonymous letter) of the falsehood of his 
Kamtschatka joimiey, sets out in the post-waggon on a similar 
pursuit. 

It is at this point of time the Play opens — with the accidental 
meeting of Cecilia and Matilda at the Inn at Weimar. Casimere 
arrives there soon after, and falls in first with Matilda, and then 
with Cecilia. Successive eclaircissements take place, and an 
arrangement is finally made, by which the two ladies are to live 
jointly with Casimere. 

Young Pottingen, wearied with a few weeks' search, during 
which he has not been able to find either of the objects of it, 
resolves to stop at Weimar, and wait events there. It so 
happens that he takes up his lodgings in the same house with 
Puddmgfield and Beefington, two English noblemen, whom the 
tyranny of King John has obliged to fly from their countrj' ; 
and who, after wandering about the continent for some time, 
have fixed their residence at Weimar. 

The news of the signature of Magna Charta arriving, de- 
termines Puddingfield and Beefington to return to England. 
Young Pottingen opens his case to them, and entreats them to 
stay to assist him in the object of his search. — This they refuse ; 
but coming to the Inn where they are to set off for Hamburgh, 
they meet Casimere, from whom they had both received many 
civilities in Poland. 

Casimere, by this time tired of his " Double Arrangement," 
and having learnt from the waiter that Rogero is confined in 
the vaults of the neighbouring abbey /or love, resolves to attempt 
his rescue, and to make over Matilda to him as the price of his 
deliverance. He communicates his scheme to Puddingfield and 
Beefington, who agree to assist him ; as also does young Pot- 
tingen. The Waiter of the Inn, proving to be a Knight Templar 
in disguise, is appointed leader of the expedition. A band of 



224 POETRY OF 

Troubadours, who happen to be returning from the Crusades, 
and a company of Austrian and Prussian Grenadiers returning 
from the Seven Years' War, are engaged as troops. 

The attack on the Abbey is made with success. The Count 
of Weimar and Gaspar, who are feasting with the Prior, are 
seized and beheaded in the refectory. Tlie Prior is thrown into 
the dungeon from which Eogero is rescued. Matilda and 
Cecilia rvish in. The former recognises Eogero, and agrees to 
live with him. The children are produced on all sides— and 
young Pottingen is commissioned to write to his father, the 
Doctor, to detail the joyful events which have taken place, and 
to invite him to Weimar to partake of the general felicity. 

THE ROVEES; OE, THE DOUBLE 
AREANGEMENT. 

ACT II. 

Scene, a Boom in an ordinary Lodging-house at Weimar — 
PuDDiNGFiELD and Beefington discovered sitting at a small 
deal table, and playing at All-fours — Young Pottingen, at 
another table in the corner of the ream, udth a pipe in his mouth, 
and a Saxon mug of a singular shape beside him, which he re- 
peatedly applies to his lips, turning back his head, and casting his 
eyes towards the firmament — at the last trial he holds the mug for 
some moments in a directly inverted position ; then replaces it on 
the table ivith an air of dejection, and gradually sinks into a pro- 
found slumber — the pijje falls from his hand, and is broken. 

Beef. I beg. 

PuDD. [Deals three cards to Beefington.] Are you 
satisfied ? 

Beef. Enough ; what have you ? 

PuDD. High, low, and the game. 

Beef. D n! 'Tis my deal. [Deals; turns tij) a 

knave.] One for his heels ! [Truimphaitthj. 

PuDD. Is king highest ? 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 225 

Beef. No. [Siernh/] The game is mine. The knave 
gives it me. 

PuDD. Are knaves so prosperous ? 

Beef. Aye, marry are they in this world. They have 
the game in their hands. Your kings are but noddies * to 
them. 

PuDD. Ha ! ha ! ha ! Still the same proud spirit, 
Beefington, which procured thee thine exile from 
England. 

Beef. England ! my native land ! when shall I revisit 
thee ? 

[Durmg this time Puddingfield deals, and 
begins to arrange his hand. 

Beef. [Confi7meti.'\ Phoo, hang All-fours ; what are they 
to a mind ill at ease ? Can they cure the heartache ? 
Can they soothe banishment ? Can they lighten 
ignominy? Can All-fours do this ? 0, my Puddingfield ! 
thy limber and lightsome spirit bounds up against afflic- 
tion with the elasticity of a well-bent bow ; but mine — 
! mine — 

[Falls into an agony, and sinks bach in his chair. Young 
PoTTiNGEN, awakened by the noise, rises, and advances with 
a grave demeano^ir towards Beefington and Puddingfield. 
The former begins to recover. 

* This is an excellent joke in German ; the point and spirit 
of which is but iW-Rcndered in a translation. A Noddy, the 
reader will observe, has two significations, the one a knave at 
All-fours, the other a fool or booby. See the translation by Mr. 
Keiider of Count Benyowsky, o?- the Conspiracy of Kamschatica, a 
German Tragi-Comi-Comi-Tragedy, where the play opens with 
a scene of a game at chess (from which the whole of this scene 
is copied), and a joke of the same point, and merriinent about 
pawns, i.e., boors being a match for kings. 

15 



226 POETBY OF 

y. Pot. What is the matter, comrades,* you seem 
agitated. Have you lost or won ? 

Beef. Lost ! I have lost my country. 

Y. Pot. And I my sister. I came hither in search of her. 

Beef. 0, England ! 

Y. Pot. O, Matilda ! 

Beef. Exiled by the tyranny of an usurper, I seek the 
means of revenge, and of restoration to my country. 

Y. Pot. Oppressed by the tyranny of an Abbot, perse- 
cuted by the jealousy of a Count, the betrothed husband 
of my sister languishes in a loathsome captivity ; her 
lover is fled no one knows whither, and I, her brother, 
am torn from my parental roof, and from my studies in 
chirurgery, to seek him and her, I know not where — to 
rescue Rogero, I know not how. Comrades, your counsel. 
My search fruitless — my money gone — my baggage stolen ! 
what am I to do ? In yonder Abbey — in these dark, 
dank vaults, there, my friends, there lies Eogero — there 
Matilda's heart. 

scene II. 
Enter Waiter. 

Waiter. Sir, here is a person who desires to speak 
with you. 

Beef. [Goes to the door aiid returns with a letter, which 
he opens. On perusi7ii] it his countenance hecomes illuminated, 
and expands prodigiously.] Ah, my friend, what joy ! 

[Turning to Puddingfield. 

* This word in the original is strictly felbm-ludgers — " Go- 
occwpants of the same room in a house let out at a small rent by the 
week". There is no single word in English which expresses so 
complicated a relation, except perhaps the cant term of chum, 
formerly in use in our Universities. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 227 

PuDD. What? tell me — let your Puddingfield partake it. 

Beef. See here. [Prothtces a printed jyaper. 

PuDD. What? [With wipatience. 

Beef. [In a significant tone.] A newspaper ! 

PuDD. Ah, what sayst thou?- — A newspaper! 

Beef. Yes, Puddingfield, and see here \shoios it par- 
tiaUii], from England. 

PuDD. [With extrnme earnestness.^ Its name? 

Beef. The Daily Advertiser. 

PuDD. Oh, ecstasy ! 

Beef. [With a dicpiified severity.] Puddingfield, calm 
yourself — repress those ti-ansports — remember that you 
are a man. 

PuDD. [After a ^?o?fcse, tcith suppressed emotion^ Well, I 
will be— I am calm — yet tell me, Beefington, does it 
contain any news ? 

Beef. Glorious news, my dear Puddingfield — the 
Barons are victorious — King John has been defeated — 
Magna Charta, that venerable immemorial inheritance 
of Britons, was signed last Friday was three weeks, the 
third of July, Old Style. 

PuDD. I can scarce believe my ears — but let me satisfy 
my eyes — show me the paragraph. 

Beef. Here it is, just above the advertisements. 

PuDD. [Reads.] " The great demand for Packwood's 
Eazor Straps" — 

Beef. Pshaw ! — what, ever blundering ! — you drive 
me from my patience. See here, at the head of the 
column. 

PuDD. [Reads.] 

" A hireling print, devoted to the court, 
Has dared to question our veracity 



228 POETRY OP 

Respecting the events of yesterday ; 
But by to-day's accounts, our information 
Appears to have been perfectly correct. 
The Charter of our Liberties received 
The royal signature at five o'clock, 
When messengers were instantly dispatched 
To Cardinal Pandulfo ; and their majesties, 
After partaking of a cold collation. 
Returned to Windsor." — ^I am satisfied. 
Beef. Yet here again — there are some further par- 
ticulars [turns to another xxirt of the p<iper\ " Extract of 
a letter from Egham — My dear friend, we are all here in 
high spirits — the interesting event which took place this 
morning at Runnymede, in the neighbourhood of this 
town " — 

PuDD. Ah, Runnymede ! enough — no more — my 
doubts are vanished — then are we free indeed ! 

Beef. I have, besides, a letter in my pocket from our 
friend, the immortal Bacon, who has been appointed 
Chancellor. Our outlawry is reversed ! — What says my 
friend — shall we return by the next packet ? 
PuDD. Instantly, instantly ! 
Both. Liberty ! Adelaide ! revenge ! 

[Exeunt — Young PoTTlNGEN folUnoing and waving his 
hat, hut obviously without inuch consciousness of the 
meaning of what has ixissed. 
Scene changes to the outside of the Abbey. — A Summer's Evening ; 

Moonlight. 
Companies of Austrian and Prussiaii Grenadiers march across the 
stage confusedly, as if returning from the Seven Years' War. — 
Shouts and martial music. 
The Abbey Gates are opened; the Monks are seen inxssing in ])ro- 
cession, with the Prior at their head; the choir is heard chanting 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 229 

vespers. — After which a imuse; then a hell is heard, as if ringing 
for supper ; soon after, a noise of singing and jollity. 
Enter from the Ahbey, pushed out <f the gates by the Porter, a 
Troubadour, with a bundle under his cloak, and a Lady under 
his arm ; Troubadour seems much in liquor, hut caresses tlie 
Female Minstrel. 
Fem. Min. Trust me, Gieronimo, thou seemest melan- 
choly. What hast thou got under thy cloak ? 

Teou. Pshaw ! women will be inquiring. Melancholy! 
not I. I will sing thee a song, and the subject of it shall 
be the question — "What have I got under my cloak?" 
It is a riddle, Margaret — I learnt it of an almanac- 
maker at Gotha —if thou guessest it after the first stanza, 
thou shalt have never a drop for thy pains. Hear me — 
and, d'ye mark ! twirl thy thingumbob while I sing. 
Fem. Min. 'Tis a pretty tune, and hums dolefully. 

[Plays on her halcdaika. 
Teou. I bear a secret comfort here, * 

[Putting his hand on the bundle. 
A joy I'll ne'er impart ; 
It is not wine, it is not beer, 
But it consoles my heart. 

"^ [• The above song is a parody on that patlietic one — given 
below— written by Sheridan, and introduced into Kotzebue's 
drama of The Stranger, to be overheard by the latter. It was 
Sling by Mrs. Bland — as Annetta — to a melody by the Duchess 
of Devonshire, in a manner, it is said, that thrilled every heart. 

" I have a silent sorrow here, 

A grief I'll ne'er impart ; 
It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, 

Biit it consumes my heart. 
This cherish'd woe, this lov'd despair, 

My lot for ever be ; 
So my soul's lord, the pangs I bear 

Be never known by thee ! 



230 POETRY OF 

Fem. Min. {Interrupting inm.'\ I'll be hang'd if you 
don't mean the bottle of cherry-brandy that you stole 
out of the vaults in the abbey cellar. 

Tbou. I mean ! — Peace, wench ; thou disturbest the 
current of my feelings — 

[Fem. Mix. attemfts to lay hold on the buttle; 
Troubadouk pushes her aside, and contimies 
singing ivithout interriqjtion. 

This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau, 

My drink for ever be ; 
But, sweet my love, thy wish forego ; 

I'll give no drop to thee ! 

[Both together.] 
Tbou. (This ) , , (this"), . 

F. M. i That r^^^^^^y-^°^^^^n that r°^^^^ ''°y^^' 

¥^M. I Thy j"^^^^^^ ^°^' ®^®^ ^^ ' 

Trou. I t3 i. 4. 1 S thy wish forego ! 

>-i3ut, sweet my love.i -^ -, , ,*= 
. > •' I one drop bestow. 



F. M. > ' -^ 'I one drop 

Trou. J I It -l ^^ c f me ! 
F. M 



iLrl^^^Pi'^^^^Mlhee 



[Exeunt struggling f<.r the bottle, but without anger 
or animosity, the Fem. Min. njypeariiig by degrees 
to obtain a superivi'ity in the contest. 
END OF ACT II. 

" And when pale characters of death 

Shall mark this alter'd cheek ; 
AVhen my poor wasted trembling breath 

My life's last hope would speak ; 
I shall not raise my eyes to heaven. 

Nor mercy ask for me, 
My soul despairs to be forgiv'n, 

Unpardon'd, love, by thee ! " — Ed, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 231 

Act the Thibd — contains the eclaircissements and 
final arrangement between Casimebe, Matilda, and 
Cecilia ; which so nearly resemble the concluding act 
of Stdla, that we forbear to lay it before our 
readers. 



Scene, the Inn duel'; Diligence drawn up. — Casimere appears super- 
inteuding the package cf his piurtmanteaus, and giving directions to 
the Porters. 

Enter Beefington aiid Puddingfielu. 

PuDD. Well, Coachey, have you got two inside 
places ? 

Coach. Yes, your Honour. 

PuDD. \seems to he druck with Casimeke's appearance. 
He surveys him earnestly loitlwut yaylng any attention to the 
Coachman, tlien doahtinyly pronounces^ Casimere ! 

Cas. {taming round rapidly, recognizes Puddingfield, 
and embraces him.] My Puddingfield! 

PuDD. My Casimere ! 

Cas. What, Beefington too ! [discoveriitg him] — then is 
my joy complete. 

Beef. Our fellow-traveller, as it seems! 

Cas. Yes, Beefington — but wherefore to Hamburgh ? 

Beef. Oh, Casimere''' — to fly — to fly — to return — Eng- 
land — ^our country — Magna Charta — it is liberated — a 

* See CuHjd Beinjowsky ; where Crustiew, an old gentleman 
of much sagacity, talks the following nonsense : 

Crustiew [icith youthful energy, and an air of secrecy and cnnfi- 
d.ence]. " To liy, to Hy, to the isles of Marian — the island of 
Tinian — a terrestrial paradise. Free — free — a mild climate — a 
new-created smi — wholesome fruits — harmless inhabitants — and 
liberty — tranquillity." 



232 POETRY OF 

new aera — House of Commons — Crown and Anchor — 
Opposition — 

Cas. What a contrast ! you are flying to Hberty and 
your home — I, driven from my home by tyranny, and 
exposed to domestic slavery in a foreign country. 

Beep. How domestic slavery ? 

Cas. Too true — two wives — [sloidij, and wi(h a dejected 
air — then after a jx<M6'eJ — you knew my Cecilia ? 

PuDD. Yes, five years ago. 

Cas. Soon after that period I went upon a visit to a 
lady in Wetteravia — my Matilda was under her protec- 
tion. Alighting at a peasant's cabin, I saw her on a 
charitable visit, spreading bread-and-butter for the 
children, in a light-blue riding-habit. The simplicity of 
her appearance — the fineness of the weather — all con- 
spired to interest me — my heart moved to hers— as if by 
magnetic sympathy. We wept, embraced, and went 
home together : she became the mother of my Pantalow- 
sky. But five years of enjoyment have not stifled the 
reproaches of my conscience — her Eogero is languishing 
in captivity — if I could restore her to him. f 

Beef. Let us rescue him. 

Cas. Will without power * is like children playing at 
soldiers. 

Beef. Courage without power f is like a consumptive 
running footman. 

Cas. Courage without power is a conti-adiction. i. Ten 
brave men might set all Quedlinburgh at defiance. 

* See Count Benyowsky, as before. f See Count Benyowsky. 

X See Count Beuyoivshij again ; from which play this and the 
preceding references are taken word for word. We acquit the 
Germans of such reprobate silly stutf. It nnist be the trans- 
lator's. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 233 

Beef. Ten brave men — but where are they to be 
found ? 

Cas. I will tell you — marked you the waiter? 

Beef. The waiter? \douhtingly. 

Cas. [in a confidential tone]. No waiter, but a Knight 
Templar. Eeturning from the Crusade, he found his 
Order dissolved, and his person proscribed. He dis- 
sembled his rank, and embraced the profession of a 
waiter. I have made sure of him already. There are, 
besides, an Austrian, and a Prussian grenadier. I have 
made them abjure their national enmity, and they have 
sworn to fight henceforth in the cause of freedom. These 
with young Pottingen, the waiter, and ourselves, make 
seven — the Troubadour, with his two attendant minstrels, 
will complete the ten. 

Beef. Now then for the execution. [With enthusiasm. 

PuDD. Yes, my boys — for the execution. 

[Clapping them on the bacJi. 

Waiter. But hist ! we are observed. 

Trou. Let us by a song conceal our purposes. 

recitative accompanied.* 

Cas. Hist ! hist ! nor let the airs that blow 

From night's cold lungs our purpose know ! 

PuDD. Let Silence, mother of the dumb, 

Beef. Press on each lip her palsied thumb ! 

Wait. Let Privacy, allied to sin. 

That loves to haunt the tranquil inn — 

* We believe this song to be copied, with a small variation in 
metre and meaning, from a song in Cuuid Benydiosky ; or, the 
Consi^iracy of Kdmschutka, where the conspirators join in a chorus, 
for fear (f being overheard. 



234 POLTKY OF 

Gren. I And Conscience start, when she shall view 
Tkou. j The mighty deed we mean to do ! 

GENERAL CHORUS — Con qjiri/o. 

Then friendship swear, ye faithful bands,. 

Swear to save a shackled hero ! 
See where yon abbey frowning stands ! 
Eescue, rescue, brave Eogero ! 
Cas. Thrall'd in a monkish tyrant's fetters 

Shall great Eogero hopeless lie ? 
Y. Pot. In my pocket I have letters, 

Saying, "Help me, or I die ! " 

AUeijro Allegretto. 

Cas. Beef. Pudd. Gken. \ 
n^ W7 -n f Let us fly, let us fiy, 

Trou. Waiter, and Pot. >. •^' , ! 

.,,,,. I Let us help, ere he die i 

witli entliusiasm. } ^ 

[Exeiuit omnes, waving their huts. 
Scene, the Abbey Gate, with Bitches, Drawbridges, aud Siiikes; Time, 
about an hour before Huurise. — The consjiiratai'S appear as if in- 
ambuscade, whispering and consulting Ugether, in expectation. <f 
the signal for attack. — Tlie Waiter is habited as a Knight Tem- 
plar, in the dress of his Onier, ivith the Cross on his breast, and the 
scallop on his shoulder. — Puddingfield a)id Beefington armed 
loith blunderbusses and pocket-pistols; the Grenadiers in their 
proper uniforms. — The Troubadour with his attendant minstrels 
bring up the rear ; martial music: the conspirators come forimrd, 
and present themselves befo^-e the Gate of the Abbey. — Alarum; 
firing of pistols; the Convent appear in Arms upon the Walls; 
the Drawbridge is let down ; a body of choi'isters and lay-brothers 
attempt CO sally, but are beaten back, and the Verger killed. — Tlie 
besieged attempt to raise the Drawbridge; Puddingfield and 
Beefington press forivurd ivith alacrity, throw themselves upon 
the Draicbridge, and by the exertion <f their loeight preserve it in a 
state of depression ; tlie other besiegers join tliem, and attempt to 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 235 

/cu'ce the entrance, but luitlwut effect. — Puddingfield makes the 
signal for the battering -rum. — Enter Quintus Curtius aiicl 
Marcus Curius Dentatus in their military habits, preceded by 
the Ruman Eagle ; the red of their Legion are employed in bringing 
foi'ivard a battering-ram, lohich flays for a few minutes to slow 
time, till the entrance is forced. — After a short resistance, the 
besiegers rush in with shouts (f Victo^'y. 

Scene changes to the interior of the Abbey. —The inhabitants of the 
Convent are seen flying in all directions. 

The Count of Weimar and the Prior, xoho had been found 
feasting in the Refectory, are brought in manacled. The Count 
appears transported with, ragf, and gnaws his chains. — The Prior 
remains insensible, as if stupefied with grief. — Beefington takes 
the keys of the Dungeon, which are hanging at the Prior's girdle, 
and makes a sign for them both to be led away into confinement. — 
Exeunt Prior and Count, properly guarded. — The rest (f the 
conspirators disperse in search of the Dungeon where EoGERO is 
confined. 

end of act the FOURTH. 




236 POETRY OF 



No. XXXI r. 

Jime 18, 1798. 

AVe are indebted for the following imitation of Catullus 
to a literary correspondent. Whether it will remove the 
doubts we formerly expressed, of Citizen Muskein's 
acquaintance with the classics, from the minds of our 
readers, we cannot pretend to say. It is given to us as 
a faithful translation from the French — as such, we pre- 
sent it to our readers ; premising only, that though the 
Citizen Imitator seems to have Sarts-cniottizcd the original 
in two or three places, yet he everywhere expresses him- 
self with a na'ivetS and truth in his verse that we seek for 
in vain in many of his countrymen who have recorded 
their victories and defeats in very vulgar prose. 

AN AFFECTIONATE EFFUSION OF CITIZEN 
MUSKEIN TO HAVEE-DE-GEACE. 

Fairest of cities,'^ which the Seine 
Surveys 'twixt Paris and the main, 
Sweet Havre ! sweetest Havre, hail ! 
How gladly with my tatter'd sail,t 
Yet trembling from this wild adventure, 
Do I thy friendly harbour enter ! 

AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM. 
* Peninsularuni Sirniio, Insulariinaque, 

Ocelle ! quascunque in liquentibus stagnis, 

Mariqiie vasto fert i;terque Neptunus ; 
f Quani te libenter, quaniqiie lietus inviso, 

Vix mi ipse credens Thyniam, atque Bith^'nos 



THT ANTI-JACOBIN. 237 

Well — now I've leisure, let me see 
What boats are left me ; one, two, three — 
Bravo ! the better half remain ; 
And all my heroes are not slain. 
And if my senses don't deceive, 
I too am safe,''' — yes, I believe, 
Without a wound I reach thy shore 
(For I have felt myself all o'er) ; 
I've all my limbs, and, be it spoken 
With honest triumph, no bone broken. 

How pleasing is the sweet transition f 
From this vile Gun-boat Expedition ; 
From winds and waves, and wounds and scars, 
From British soldiers, British tars, 
To his own house, where, free from danger, 
MuSKEiN may live at rack and manger ; 
May stretch his limbs in his own cot,| 
Thankful he has not gone to pot ; 
Nor for the bubble Glory strive. 
But bless himself that he's alive ! 

Havre, § sweet Havre ! hail again, 
! bid thy sons (a frolic train, || 
Who under Chenier welcomed in. 
With dance and song, the Guillotine). 

Liquisse campos,* et videre te in tuto. 
f quid sohitis est beatins ciiris 

Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrine 

Lahore fessi veninius larem ad nostrum. 
J Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto ? 

Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. 
§ Salve ! venusta Sirmio ! atque hero gaude ; 

Gaudete I vosque Lydise lacus undae ; 

Eidetell quicquid est domi caehinnorum ! 



238 



POETRY OF 



In long procession seek the strand ; 

For MusKEiN now prepares to land, 

'Scaped, Heav'n knows how, from that cursed crew 

That haunt the rocks of Saint Mabcou. 



[TO THE PENINSULA OF SIEMIO. 

UPON THE RETURX OF THE POET TO HIS COUNTRY HOUSE THERE. 

Trarisldted from Catullus. 
SiRMio, of all the shores the gem, 

The isles where circling Neptune strap's; 

Whether the vast and boisterous main 
Or lake's more limpid waves they stem, 

How gladly on thy waves I gaze ! 

How blest to visit thee again ! 

I scarce believe, while rapt I stand. 

That I have left the Thynian fields 

And all Bithynia far behind. 
And safely view my favourite land. 

Oh bliss, when care dispersing yields 

To full repose the placid mind ! 

Then when the mind its load lays down ; 
When we regain, all hazards past. 
And with long ceaseless travel tired, 

Our household god again our own ; 
And press in tranquil sleep at last 
The well-known bed so oft desired — 

This can alone atonement make 

For every toil. Hail, Sirmio sweet ! 
Be gay, thy lord hath ceased to roam ! 

Ye laughing waves of Lydia's lake. 
Smile all around ! thy master greet 
With all thy smiles, my pleasant home ! — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 239 



No. XXXIIL* 

June 25, 1798. 
After the splendid account of Buonaparte's successes 
in the East, which our readers will find in another part 
of this paper, f and which they will peruse with equal 
wonder and apprehension, it is some consolation to us to 
have to state, not only from authority, but in verse, that 
our government has not been behindhand with that of 
France ; but that aware of the wise and enterprising 
spii'it of the enemy, and of the danger \vhich might arise 
to our distant possessions from the export of learning and 
learned men being entirely in their hands, ministers have 
long ago determined on an expedition of a similar nature, 
and have actually embarked at Portsmouth on board one 
of the East India Company's ships taken up for that 
purpose (the ship Capricorn, Mr. Thomas Truman, Com- 
mander), several tons of savan.^, the growth of this 
country. The whole was conducted with the utmost 
secrecy and dispatch, and it was not till we were favoured 
with the following copy of a letter (obligingly communi- 
cated to us by the Tunisian gentleman to whom it is 
addressed) that we had any suspicion of the extent and 
nature of the design, or indeed of any such design being 
in contemplation. 

[ * The following Letter probably alludes to the Association j or 
promoting the Discovery of the iuteriar parts of Africa, of which Sir 
John Sinclair was the presiding genius. "The result of their 
labours," says Hugh Murray, in his Account of African Dis- 
coveries, " has thrown new lustre on the British name, and 
mdely extended the boundaries of human knowledge." — Ed.] 

[t Buonaparte's Bulletin. — Ed.] 



240 POETRY OF 

The several great names which are combined to render 
this Expedition the most surprising and splendid ever 
undertaken, could not indeed have been spared from the 
country to which they are an ornament for any other 
purpose than one the most obviously connected with 
the interests of the empire, and the most widely beneficial 
to mankind. 

The secrecy with which they have been withdrawn 
from the British public, without being so much as missed 
or enquired after, reflects the highest honour on the 
planners of the enterprise. Even the celebrity of Doctor 
Parr has not led to any discovery or investigation : the 
silent admirers of that great man have never once 
thought of asking what was become of him ; till it is now 
all at once come to light, that he has been for weeks past 
on shipboard, the brightest star in the bright constella- 
tion of talents which stud the quarter-deck of the Capri- 
corn, Mr. T. Truman (as before mentioned), Commander. 

The resignation of the late worthy President of a 
certain Agricultural Board -•' might indeed have taught 
mankind to look for some extraordinary event in the 
world of science and adventure ; and those W'ho had the 
good fortune to see the deportation from his house, of the 
several wonderful anomalies which had for years formed 
its most distinguished inmates, — the stuffed ram, the 
dried boar, the cow with three horns, and other fanciful 
productions of a like nature, could not but speculate with 
some degree of seriousness on the purpose of their re- 
moval, and on the place of their destination. 

[* Sir John Sinclair, the celebrated author of the Historii 
of the Public Revenue, the Statistical Account of Scotland, and 
many usefiil agricultural and other works. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 241 

It now appears that there was in truth no hght object 
in view. They were destined, with the rest of the savans, 
on whom this country prides itself (and long may it have 
reason to indulge the honest exultation), to undertake a 
voyage of no less grandeur than peril ; to counteract the 
designs of the Directory, and to frustrate or forestal the 
conquests of Buonaparte. 

The young gentleman who writes the following letter 
to his friend in London is, as may be seen, interpreter to 
the Expedition. We have understood, further, that he is 
connected with the young man who writes for the 
Morning Chronicle, and conducts the Critical, Argiimenta- 
tive, and Geograpliical departments. Some say it is the 
young man himself, who has assumed a feigned name, 
and, under the disguise of a Turkish dress and circum- 
cision, is gone, at the express instigation of his em- 
ployers, to improve himself in geographical knowledge. 
We have our doubts upon this subject, as we think we 
recognise the style of this deplorable young man in an 
article of last week's Morning CItronicIe, which we have 
had occasion to answer in a preceding column of our 
present paper. Be that as it may, the information con- 
tained in the following letter may be depended upon. 

We cannot take leave of the subject without remarking 
what a fine contrast and companion the vessel and cargo 
described in the following poem affords \fic^ to the " Navis 
Stultifeka," the " Shippe op Fooles " of the celebrated 
Barclay ; and we cannot forbear hoping that the Argenis 
of an author of the same name may furnish a hint for an 
account of this stupendous Expedition in a learned 
language, from the only pen which in modern days is 
capable of writing Latin with a purity and elegance 

16 



242 POETKY OF 

worthy of so exalted a theme, and that the author of a 
classical preface * may become the writer of a no less 
celebrated voyage. 

TEANSLATION OF A LETTEE, 

(in oriental characters) 

F R M B A W B A - D A R A - A D U L- P H L A,t 

DKAGOMAN TO THE EXPEDITION, 

TO NEEK-AWL-ARETCHID-KOOEZ, 

seceetaby to the tunisian embassy. 
Dear Neek-awl, 
You'll rejoice, that at length I am able, 
To date these few lines from the captain's own table. 
Mr. Truman himself, of his proper suggestion, 
Has in favour of science decided the question ; 
So we walk the main-deck, and are mess'd with the 

captain, 
I leave you to judge of the joys we are wrapt in. 

At Spithead they embark'd us, how precious a cargo ! 
And we sail'd before day to escape the embargo. 
There was Shuckboeough,+ the wonderful mathema- 
tician ; 
And Darwin, the poet, the sage, and physician ; 
There was Beddoes, and Bruin, and Godwin, whose 
trust is, 

[* Dr. Parr's noted Latin Preface to his edition of Bel- 
lendenus de Statu. T. De Quincey, in his famous dissection of 
Dr. Parr and his writings, beseeches the "gentle reader" of 
Bellendenus to pronounce the penultimate syllable short, and 
not long, as is usually done. — Ed.] 

[t I.e., from Bob Adair, a dull fool, to Nicholl [Nicholls], a 
wretched goose. — Ed.] 

[X Sir Geo. Aug. Wm. Shuckburgh, M.P., F.E.S., author of 
papers in the Phil. Trans. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 243 

He may part with his work on Polif/'cal Justice 

To some Iman or Bonze, or Judaical Eabbin ; 

So with huge quarto vokimes he piles up the cabin. 

There was great Dr. Parr whom we style Bellendenus, 

The Doctor and I have a hammock between us. 

'Tis a little unpleasant thus crowding together, 

On account of the motion and heat of the weather ; 

Two souls in one berth they oblige us to cram, 

And Sir John* ivill insist on a place for his ram. 

Though the Doctor, I find, is determined to think 

'Tis the animal's hide that occasions the stink ; 

In spite of th' experienced opinion of Truman, 

Who contends that the scent is exclusively human. 

But Beddoes and Darwin engage to repair 

This slight inconvenience with oxijijen air. 

Whither bound? (you will ask). 'Tis a question, my 
friend. 
On which I long doubted ; my doubt's at an end. 
To Arabia the Stony, Sabgea the gummy, 
To the land where each man that you meet is a mummy ; 
To the mouths of the Nile, to the banks of Araxes, 
To the Red and the Yellow, the White and the Black seas, 
With telescopes, globes, and a quadrant and sextant, 
And the works of all authors whose writings are extant ; 
With surveys and plans, topographical maps. 
Theodolites, watches, spring-guns and steel-traps, 
Phials, crucibles, air-pumps, electric machinery. 
And pencils for painting the natives and scenery. 
In short, we are sent to oppose all we know 
To the knowledge and mischievous arts of the foe, 

[* Sir John Sinclair. — Ed.] 



244 POETRY OF 

Who, though placing in arms a well-grounded reliance, 
Go to war wdth a flying artillery of science. 

The French savans, it seems, recommended this 

measure, -. 
With a view to replenish the national treasure. 
First, the true Rlgiits of Man they will preach in all 

places. 
But chief (when 'tis found) in the Egyptian Oasis : 
And this doctrine, 'tis hoped, in a very few w^eeks 
Will persuade the wild Arabs to murder their cheiks, 
And, to aid the Great Nation's beneficent plans, 
Plunder pyramids, catacombs, tow^ns, caravans, 
Then enlist under Arcole's gallant commander. 
Who will conquer the world like his model Iskandek. 
His army each day growing bolder and finer. 
With the Turcoman tribes he subdues Asia Minor, 
Beats Paul and his Scythians, his journey pursues 
Cross the Indus, with tribes of Armenians and Jews, 
And Bucharians, and Affghans, and Persians, and 

Tartars, — 
Chokes the wretched Mogul in his grandmother's garters, 
And will hang him to dry in the Luxembourg hall, 
'Midst the plunder of Carthage and spoils of Bengal. 

Such, we hear, was the plan; but I trust, if we meet 'em, 
That savant to savant, our cargo will beat 'em. 
Our plan of proceeding I'll presently tell ; — 
But soft — I am call'd — I must bid you farewell : 
To attend on our savans my pen I resign, 
For, it seems, that they dncJc them on crossimj the Line, 



We deeply regret this interruption of our oriental poet, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 245 

and the more so, as the prose letters which we have re- 
ceived from a less learned correspondent do not enable 
us to explain the tactics of our belligerent philosophers 
so distinctly as we could have wished. It appears, in 
general, that the learned Doctor who has the honour of 
sharing the hammock of the amiable oriental, trusted 
principally to his superior knowledge in the Greek 
language, by means of which he hoped to entangle his 
antagonists in inextricable confusion. Dr. Darwin pro- 
posed (as might be expected) his celebrated experiment 
of the Ice-island,^ which, being towed on the coast of 
x^frica, could not fail of spoiling the climate, and im- 
mediately terrifying and embarrassing the sailors of 
Buonaparte's fleet, accustomed to the mild temperature 
and gentle gales of the Mediterranean, and therefore ill 
qualified to struggle with this new importation of 
tempests. Dr. Beddoes was satisfied with the project 
of communicating to Buonaparte a consumption, of the 
same nature with that w^hich he formerly tried on him- 
self, but superior in virulence, and therefore calculated to 
make the most rapid and fatal ravages in the hectic con- 
stitution of the Gallic hero. The rest of the plan is quite 
umntelligible, excepting a hint about Sir J. S.'s intention 
of proceeding wdth his ram to the celebrated Oasis, and 
of bringing away, for the convenience of the Bank, the 
treasures contained in the temple of Jupiter Amnion. 



[1 The following are Dr. Darwin's instructions for the trans- 
portation of Ice Islands : — 

" There, Nymphs ! alight, array your dazzling powers, 
With sudden march alarm the torpid hours"; 
On ice-built isles expand a thousand sails, 
Hinge the strong helms, and catch the frozen gales. 
The winged rocks to feverish climates guide, 
Where fainting zephyrs pant upon the tide ; 



246 POETEY OF 

Pass, where to Ceuta Calpt5's thunder roars, 
And answering: echoes shake the kindred shores ; 
Pass, where with palmy plumes, Canary smiles, 
And in her silver girdle binds her isles ; 
Onward, where Niger's dusky Naiad laves 
A thousand kingdoms with prolific waves. 
Or leads o'er golden sands her threefold train 
In'sttjamy channels to the fervid main ; 
While swarthy nations crowd the sultry coast, 
Drink the fresli breeze, and hail the floating frost : 
Nymphs ! veil'd in mist, the melting treasure steer, 
And cool with arctic snows the tropic year." 
"If the nations wlio inhabit this hemisphere of the globe, insteail of de- 
stroying their seamen and exhausting their wealth in imnecessary wars, could 
be induced to unite their labours to navigate these immense masses of ice into 
the more southern oceans, two great advantages would result to mankind, the 
tropic countries would be much cooled by their solution, and our winters in 
this altitude would be rendered much milder, for perhaps a century or two, till 
the masses of ice became again enormous."— Ed.] 



[Dr. Thomas Beddoes, born at Shiflfnal in 1760, was a scientific Physician 
far in advance of his age; his Pnjndcir E.-^sn;/ on Consumption, 1779, his tracts 
entitled Ili/f/eia, 1801, &c., may still be studied with profit. He paid particular 
attention to the medical use of the permanently Elastic Fluids, and avows that 
as " one rash experiment on a patient would demolish a plan on which the hope 
of relieving mankind from much of their mi.sery is founded," he made prelimi- 
nary experiments on himself in the case of Oxyi/ene and Consumption, as 
alluded to in the text. A propns of the artificial distribution of disease, it may 
be mentioned that in The Batchdor, p. 189, is a method for " discharging the 
Plague ". 

He wrote much on the political topics of the day, always taking the liberal 
side, and attacking Pitt with great virulence and eloquence. The principles of 
the French Revolution were at first advocated by him with the utmost 
enthusiasm, but he was soon disgusted by the excesses committed. He was a 
student of German literature, and much admired by Inmianuel Kant. He was 
also an intimate friend of Darwin's, who.se political opinions he shared, and 
whose works were intrusted to his revision in manuscript. A few months after 
the publication of Darwin's Botanic Garden, its magnificent imagery and har- 
monious versification inspired some admirers to say that the style of this work 
was a style sui peneris, and that it defied imitation. Dr. Beddoes maintained 
an opposite opinion. Much as he admired the poem in question, he thought 
that the Darwinian structure of verse might be imitated by a writer possessed 
of inferior poetical powers, and in a few" days he produced in the same circle 
part of the manusci'ipt of Ale.rander's Expulition to the Indian Ocean as an un- 
published work of the author of the Botayiic Garden. The deception completely 
succeeded, and some enthusiastic admirers of the latter work pointed out with 
triumph "certain pas.sages as proofs of the position that the author in his hap- 
pier efforts defied imitation ". Beddoes's success was the more extraordinary, as 
in the "Introduction" to a considerable extract from his poem which he printed 
in the Anniml Antholor/y for 1796, he states that he had never before written 
twice as many lines of verse as the composition under notice consisted of. 

As Beddoes s imitation of Daravin is seldom met with, it may not be out of 
character in a work of the present natui-e to give a specimen of it. 

AN IMITATION OF DARWIN. 
" Now the new Lord of Persia's wide domain, 
Down fierce Hydaspes seeks the Indian main ; 
High on the leading prow the Conqueror stands. 
Eyes purer skies and marks diverging strands. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 247 

A thousand sails attendant catch the wind, 

And yet a thousand press the wave behind ; 

Two veteran liosts, outstretched on either hand, 

Wide wave tlieir wings and sweep the trembling land. 

Each serried phalanx Terror stalks beside, 

And shakes o'er crested helms his blazing pride ; 

AVhile Victory, still companion of his way. 

Sounds her loud trump and flaunts her banners gay." 
Further on, the Hero's attention is attracted to the surrounding landscape, 
which he thus apostrophizes : — 

"Ye fields for ever fair ! Thou mighty stream ! 

Bright regions ! blessed beyond the muse's dream ! 

Thou fruitful womb of ever-teeming earth ! 

Ye fostering skies that rear each beauteous birth ! 

Trees, that aloft uprear your stately height, 

Whose sombrous branches shed a noontide night ! 

Groves, that for ever wear the smile of spring ! 

Gay birds that wave the many-tinted wing ! 

Of reptiles, fishes, brutes, stupendous fonns ! 

And ye, of nameless insects glittering swarms ! 

Sons of soft toil, whose shvittle beauty throws. 

Whose tints the Graces' earnest hands dispose. 

Whose guileless bosom Care avoid and Crime, 

Gay as your groves, and cloudless as your clime ! 

Primfeval piles, that rose in massive pride, 

Ere Western Art her first faint efforts tried ! 

Ye Brachmans old, whom purer aeras boie, 

Ere Western Science lisped her infant lore ! 

How will your wonders flush the Athenian sage? 

How ray with glory my historic page ? " 
In a letter to Hannah More, Horace Walpole says : " The poetry is most ad- 
mirable ; the similes beautiful, fine, and sometimes sublime ; the author is a great 
poet, and could raise the passions, and possesses all the requisites of the art ". In 
another lively epistle to the Misses Berry (•28th April, 1789), he says: " I send 
you the most delicious poem upon earth. I can read this Second Part over and 
over again for ever ; for though it is so excellent, it is impossible to remember 
anything so disjointed, except you consider it as a collection of shoi-t enchanting 
poems. ' The Triumph of Flora,' beginning at the fifty-ninth line, is most 
beautifully and enchantingly imagined, and the twelve verses that by miracle 
describe and comprehend the creation of the universe out of chaos, are, in my 
opinion, tlie most sublime passage in any author, or in any of the few languages 
with which I am acquainted." — Ed. J 

[Darwin was acquainted with Rousseau. He was a man of great bodily and 
intellectual vigour, irascible and imperious, a strong advocate of temperance, and 
for many years an almost total abstainer. His professional fame was such that 
CJeorge ill. said he would take him as his physician if he would come to London. 
He formed a botanical garden at Lichfield, about which Miss Seward wrote 
some verses which suggested his Botanic Gardni. The Lor^s of tin: Plaitts had a 
singular success, and was praised in a joint poem by Cowper and Hayley. 
It was translated into French, Portuguese, and Italian. Darwin himself is said 
by Edgeworth to have admired the parody {Moathli/ Magciziae, June and Sept., 
1S02, p. 115). Coleridge {Biographla Littrarui, 1817, p. 19) speaks of the impression 
which it made even upon good judges. 

In the Anti-Jarohin Review, vol. i. (1799), pp. 718-721, appear some Latin verses 
[by Ben. Frere] which are thus introduced : " Among the copies of verses which 
are annually produced as a public exercise called Tripos, at Cambridge, we 
have selected the following as a beautiful composition. The subject is Dr. 
Beddoes'S Factitious Air applied to the Case of ConsumiHions ," — Ed.] 



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FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE EXTRAOEDINAEY* 

The Priority of Intelligence which has ever distinguished Our Paper will. 
We trust, receive Sdditional lustre from the extraordinary News which We now 
lay before the Puljlic. We received it by a Neutral Ship, which arrived in the 
River last night ; and feel ourselves much indebted to the attention of our 
Correspondent, a Currant Merchant at Xante, for its early communication. 
Without arrogating to ourselves that merit which is (perhaps) justly our due, 
We think ourselves justified in asserting that it is not only the earliest, but, 
if We are not much mistaken, the only account which will appear in the Prints 
of this Day respecting the Successes of Buoxapaute. 



COPY OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL BUONAPARTP' TO THE 
COMMANDANT AT ZANTE. 

"Athens, IS Pntirial. 
"Citizen general, 

" Victory still attends us. I inclose you a Copy of a Letter which I 
have this day written to the Directory. Health and Fraternity. 

"BUONAPARTE." 

" IJcad-Quarten, Salamis, 18 Prairial. 
"Citizens directors, 

" The brave Soldiers, who conferred Liberty on lioiuc, have con- 
tinued to deserve well of their Country, drcice has joyfully received her 
Deliverers. The Tree of Liberty is planted on the Piraeus. Thirty thousand 
Janizaries, the Slaves of Despotism, had taken possession of the Isthmus of 
Corintk. Two Demi-biigades opened us a passage. After ten days' fighting, 
we have driven the Turks from the Mm-ca. The Pdopoaiusus is now free. 
Every step in my power has been taken to revive the antient spirit of Sparta. 
The Inhabitants of that celebrated City, seeing black hroih of my Troops, and 
the scarcity of specie to which we have been long accustomed, will, I doubt not, 
soon acquire the frugal virtues of their Ancestors. As a proper measure of 
precaution, I have removed all Pitt's gold froui the Country. 

"Off this Island we encountered the Fleet of the Sultan. The ^Sla- 
hometan Crescent soon fled before the three-coloured flag. Nine Sail of the 
Line are the fruits of this Victory. Tlie Captain Pacha's Ship, a second rate, 
struck to a National Corvette. My Aide-de-Camp will present you with the 
model of a Trireme, which was found among the Archives of Athens. Vessels of 
this description draw so little water, that our Naval Architects may perhaps 
think them more eligible than Rafts, for the conveyance of the Army of Englemd. 
Liberty will be sufficiently avenged, if the ruins "of a Grecian City ifurnish us 
with the means of transporting the (Jonqnerors of Rome to Briteuti. 

"On landing at this Island, I participated in a Scene highly interesting 
to Humanity. A poor Fisherman, of the family of Themistocles, attended by 
his Wife, a descendant of the virtuous Phryne, fell at my feet. I received him 

[* This piece has not hitherto formed a portion of the editions of The Poetry. 
—Ed.] 



THE AXTI- JACOBIN. 249 

with the Fvatemal embrace, and promised him the protection of the Republic. 
He invited me to supper at his Hut, and in gratitude to his Deliverer presented 
me with a memorable O/ister Shell, inscribed with the Name of his illustrious 
Ancestor. As this curious piece of antiquity may be of service to some of the 
Directory, I have inclosed it in my Dispatches, together with a Marble Tablet, 
containing the proper form for pronouncing the Sentence of Ostnicinn on 
RoyaliH Athenians. 

"Kleber, whom I had ordered to Constantinojile, informs me that the 
Capital of Turkey has proved an easy conquest. i-anta-Sophia has been con- 
verted into a Temple of Reason ; tlie Heiw/lio has been purified by Theo-Philan- 
thropists, and the liberated Circassians are learning from our Sailors the lessons 
of Equality and Fraternity. A Detachment has been sent to Troy, for the 
purpose of organizing the Department of Mount Ida. The Tomb of Achilles 
has been repaired, and the Bust of Briseis (which formed part of the Pedestal) 
restored to its original state, at the expense of the Female Citizen Buo.naparte. 

"The Division of the Fleet destined for Egypt has anchored in tlie Port of 
Ak.caiulria. Berthiek, who commands this "Expedition, informs me that this 
Port will soon lie restored to its ancient pre-eminence ; and that its celebrated 
Pharos will soon be fit to receive the Rtnrtjcns which have been sent from the 
Hue St. Honors. 

"B.\RAGUAY D'HiLLiERS, with the Left Wing of the Arin;i of Erjiipt, has 
fixed his Head-quarters at Jerusalem. He is chaiged to restore the Jews to 
their ancient Rights. Citizens Jacob .Jacobs, Simon Levi, and Benjamin 
Solomons, of Amsterdam, have been provisionally appointed Directors. The 
Palace of Pontius Pilate is re-building for their residence. All the vestiges of 
Superstition in Palestine have been carefully destroyed. 

" I beg you will ratify a grant which I have made of the Temple of the Sun 
at Palmt/ra to a Society of Illuminati from Bavaria. They may be of service in 
extending our future conquests. 

"I have received very satisfactory accounts from Desaix, who had been 
.sent by Berthier with a Demi-brigade into the interior of Africa. That tine 
Country has been too long neglected by Europeans. In manners and civiliza- 
tion it much resembles France, and will soon emulate our virtues. Already 
does the Torrid Zone glow with the ardour of Freedom. Already has the Altar 
of Liberty been reared in the Cajjrurian and Equinoctial Republics. Their 
regenerated inhabitants have sworn eternal amity to us at a Civic Feast, to 
which a detachment of our Army was invited. This memorable day would 
have terminated with the utmost harmony, if the Caffrarian Council of 
Ancients had not devoured the greatest part of General Desaix's l?tat-Major 
for their supper. I hope our Ambassador will be instructed to require tliat 
Civic Feasts of this nature be omitted for the future. The Directory of the 
Equinoctial Republic regret that the scarcity of British Cloth in Africa, and the 
gTeat heat of the climate, prevent tliem from adopting our cost^ime. 

"We hope soon to liberate the Hottentots, and to drive the perfidious 
Eiujlish from the extremities of Africa and of Europe. Asia, too, will soon be 
free. The three-colourefl flag floats on the summit of Caucasus ; the Tigrine 
Repuijlic is established ; the (V.s and Trans-Euphratean Conventions are assembled ; 
and soon shall Arabia, under the mild influence of French Principles, resume 
her ancient appellation, and be again denominated 'the Happy'. 

"In the course of the next Decade I shall sail to the Canal which is now 
cutting across the Isthmus of Suez. The Polytechnic School and Corps of 
Geographical Engineers are employed in devising means for conveying my 
heavy artillery across the great Desert. Soon shall India hail us as her 
Deliverers, and those proud Islanders, the Tyrants of CalcxUta, fall before the 
Heroes of Areola. 

" The Members of the National Institute who accompanied the Squadron to 
Egypt, have made a large collection of Antiquities for the use of the Republic. 
Among the scattered remains of the Alexandrine Library, they have found a 



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curious Treatise, in Arabic, respecting Cainda, from wliich it appears tliat 
Human Beings, by proper treatment, may, like those useful animals, be trained 
to support thirst and hunger without complaining. Many reams of papyrus 
have been collected, as it is thought that during the present scarcity of linen 
and old rags in France, it may answer all the purposes of paper. Cleopatra's 
celebrated Obelisk has been shipped on board the Admiral's Ship L'Orknt, 
cidevant Sana Culottes : Another man-of-war has been freighted with the Sphinx, 
which our Engineers removed from Grand Cairo, and which, I trust, will be 
thought a proper ounament for the Hall of Audience of the Directory. — The 
cage in which Bajazet was confined, has been long preserved at Bassora ; it will 
be transmitted to Paris as a proper model for a new Cai/enne Diligence. — I beg 
leave to present to the Director Merlin, a very curious book, bound in Morocco 
leather, from Algiers. It is finely illuminated with gold ; and contains lists of 
the various fees usually received by Deys and their Ministers from Foreign 
Ambassadors. A broken Column will be sent from Carthage. It records the 
downfall of that Commercial City ; and is sufficiently large for an Inscription 
(if tlie Directory should think proper to place it on the Banks of the Thames), to 
inform posterity that it marks the spot where Londoii once stood. 

" Health and Respect, 
"BUONAPARTE." 




THE AKTI-JACOBIN. 251 

No. XXXIV. 

July 2, 1798. 
ODE TO A JACOBIN. 

FROM suckling's ODE TO A LOVEE. 
I. 

Unchristian Jacobin whoever, 
If, of thy God thou cherish ever 
One wavering thought ; if e'er his word 
Has from one crime thy soul deterr'd, — 
Know this, 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
And to think true, 
Thou must renounce Him all, and think anew. 

II. 
If, startled at the guillotine, 
Trembling thou touch the dread machine ; 
If, leading sainted Louis to it, 
Thy steps drew back, thy heart did rue it, — 
Know this, 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
And to think true, 
Must rise 'bove weak remorse, and think anew. 

III. 
If, callous, thou dost not mistake, 
And murder for mild Mercy's sake ; 
And think thou followest Pity's call. 
When slaughtered thousands round thee fall, — 



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Know this, 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
And to think true, 
Must conquer prejudice, and think anew. 

IV. 

If, when good men are to be slain, 
Thou hear'st them plead, nor plead in vain ; 
Or, when thou answerest, if it be 
"With one jot of humanity, — 
Know this. 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
And to think true, 
Must pardon leave to fools, and think anew. 

V. 

If, when all kings, priests, nobles hated, 
Lie headless, thy revenge is sated. 
Nor thirsts to load the reeking block 
With heads from thine own murd'rous flock,- 
Know this, 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
And to think true. 
Thou must go on in blood, and think anew. 

VI. 

If, thus, by love of executions. 
Thou provest thee fit for revolutions ; 
Yet one achieved, to that art true, 
Nor wouldst begin to change anew, — 
Know this. 
Thou think'st amiss ; 
Deem, to think true, 
All constitutions bad, but those bran new. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 253 

[The preceding " Ode to a Jacobin " is parodied from the following 

ODE TO A LOVEE, 

BY SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 
I. 

Honest lover whosoever, 
If in all thy love was ever 
One wav'ring thought ; if e'er thy flame 
Were not still even, still the same, — 
Know this. 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love true, 
Thou must begin again, andlove anew. 

II. 

If, when she appears i' th' room, 
Thou dost not quake, and art struck dumb ; 
And, in striving this to cover. 
Dost not speak thy words twice over, — 
Know this, 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love true, 
Thou must begin again, and love anew. 

III. 
If, fondly, thou dost not mistake, 
And all defects for graces take, 
Persuad'st. thyself that jests are broken, 
When she has little or nothing spoken, — 
Know this, 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love true. 
Thou must begin again, and love anew. 



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IV. 

If, when thou appear'st to be within, 
Thou let'st not men asli and ask again ; 
And when thou answer'st, if it be 
To whal; was ask'd thee, properly, — 
Know tliis, 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love true, 
Thou must begin again, and love anew. 

V. 

If, when thy stomach calls to eat. 
Thou cut'st not fingers 'stead of meat ; 
x\nd with much gazing on her face. 
Dost not rise hungry from the place^ — 
Know this. 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love ti-ue. 
Thou must begin again, and love anew. 

VI. 

If, by this thou dost discover 
That thou art no perfect lover ; 
And desiring to love true, 
Thou dost begin to love anew, — 
Know this, 
Thou lov'st amiss ; 
And to love true. 
Thou must begin again, and love anew. — Ed.] 



THE AN TI- JACOBIN. 255 



No. XXXV. 

July 9, 1798. 
The following popular song is said to be in great vogue 
among the loyal troops in the North of Ireland. The 
air and the turn of the composition are highly original. 
It is attributed (as our correspondent informs us) to a 
fifer in the Drumballyroney Volunteers. 

BALLYNAHINCH.* 

A NEW SONG. 

I. 

A CEETAiN great Statesman f whom all of us know, 
In a certain assembly, no long while ago, 

[*This spirited song refers to Lord Moira's motion in the 
Irish House of Commons, 19th of Febi'uary, 1798, for an 
address to the Lord Lieutenant, complaining of the excesses 
committed by the government authorities, civil and military, 
and recommendmg that conciliatory measures should be devised. 
He took occasion to praise the loyalty of his own tenants at 
Ballynahinch ; but, mifortunately for him, shortly after, an 
insiurection broke out at this very place, and a large number 
of pikes were found secreted by the peasantry in his own woods. 
On June 12, General Nugent attacked the rebels, 5000 strong, 
commanded by Munro, near Ballynahinch, and routed them 
with great slaughter. This victory quelled the rebellion in the 
north. — Ed.] 

[fThe Earl op Moira was a gallant soldier, an eloquent 
orator, and a sagacious as well as honest statesman. Having 
early in life achieved much reputation for skill and courage 
during the American War, and afterwards in Flanders, he subse- 
quently turned his attention to politics, particularly those of 
Ireland, his native country, which drew on him repeated 
attacks from the Ministerial press. In 1812 he was appointed 
Governor- General of India, and created Marquis of Hastings. 
He was the patron of Thomas Moore on his arrival in London. 
He died in 1825.— Ed.] 



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Declared from this maxim he never would flinch, 
" That no town was so loyal as Ballynahinch ". 

II. 
The great statesman, it seems, had perused all their 

faces, 
And been mightily struck with their loyal grimaces ; 
While each townsman had sung, like a throstle or finch, 
" We are all of us loyal at Ballynahinch ". 

III. 
The great statesman return'd to his speeches and 

readings ; 
And the Ballynahinchers resumed their proceedings ; 
They had most of them sworn, " We'll he true to the 

Frinch," * 
So loyal a town was this Ballynahinch ! 

IV. 

Determined their landlord's fine words to make good, 
They hid pikes in his haggard, cut staves in his 

wood ; 
And attack'd the king's troops — the assertion to clinch. 
That no town is so loyal as Ballynahinch. 

V. 

! had we but trusted the rebels' professions. 

Met their cannon with smiles, and their pikes with con- 
cessions ; 

Tho' they still took an ell when we gave them an 
tJich, 

They would all have been loyal — like Ballynahinch. 

* Hibernice pro French. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 257 

ViEi Eruditi, 

Si vobis hocce poematium, cle navali laucle Britanniae, 
paucis annis ante conscriptum, nuperrime recensitum 
atque emendatum, forte arrideat, quserite in proximis 
vestris tabulis locum quendam seci^etum atque securum, 
ubi repositum sua sorte perfruatur. Quod si in me banc 
gratiam contuleritis, devinctus vobis ero et astrictus 
beneficio. 

Etonensis. 

DE NAVALI LAUDE BEITANNI^. 

SucCESSU si freta brevi, fatisque secundis, 
Europaj sub pace vetet requiescere gentes, 
Inque dies ruat ulterius fuvialibus armis 
Gallia, tota instans a sedibus eruere imis 
Fundamenta, quibus cultas Commercia vitae 
Firmant se subnixa ; — tuisne, Beitannia, regnis 
Ecquid ab boste times ; dum te tua saxa tuentur, 
Dum pelagus te vorticibus spumantibus ambit ? 

Tu medio stabilita mari, atque ingentibus undis 
Ciucta sedes ; nee tu angusto, Vulcania tanquam 
Trinacris, interclusa sinu ; nee faucibus arctis 
Septa freti brevis, impositisque coercita claustris. 
Liberiora Tibi spatia, et porrecta sine ullo 
Limite regna patent (quanto neque maxima quondam 
Cartbago, aut Phoenissa Tyros, ditissima tellus 
Floruit imperio) confiniaque ultima mundi. 

Ergone formidabis adbuc, ne se inferat olim, 
Et campis impune tuis superingruat bostis? 
Usque adeone pariim est, quod late litora cernas 
Praeruptisturrita jugis, protentaque Ion go 
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Circuitu, et tutos passim praebentia portus ? 
Praesertim australes ad aquas, Damnoniaque arva, 
Aut ubi Vecta viret, secessusque insula fidos 
Efficit objectu laterum ; saxosave Dubris 
Velivolum late pelagus, camposque liquentes 
Aeria, adversasque aspectat desuper eras. 

Nee levibus sane auguriis, aut omine nullo 
Auguror hinc fore perpetuum per secula nomeu : 
Dum nautis tarn firma tuis, tam prodiga vitae 
Pectora, inexpleta succensa cupidine famse, 
Nee turpi fleetenda metu ; dum maxima quercus, 
Majestate exeelsa sua, atque ingentibus umbris, 
Erigitur, vasto nodosa atque aspera truneo ; 
Silvarum regina. Haec formidabilis olim 
Noctem inter mediam nimborum, hyemesque sonautes, 
Ardua se attollit super aBquora ; quara neque fluettLs 
Spumosi attenuat furor, aut violentia venti 
Erangere, et in medio ]3otis est disrumpere ponto. 

Viribus his innixa, saloque aeeincta frementi, 
Tu media inter bella sedes ; ignara malorum, 
Quae tolerant obsesste urbes, eum jam bostiea clausas 
Eulminat ad portas acies, vallataque circum 
Castra loeat, saevisque aditus cireumsidet armis. 

Talia sunt tibi perpetuae fundamina famae, 
Ante alias diis eara, Bkitannia ! Prselia cerno 
Inclyta, perpetuos testes quid maxima victrix, 
Quid possis preclara tuo, maris arbitra, ponto. 

Hffic inter, sanetas aeterna laude calendas 
Servandas reeolo, quibus ilia, immane minata 
Gentibus exeidium, totum grassata per orbem 
Ausaque jam imperils intaetum amplectier aequor, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN, 259 

Ilia odiis lymphata, et libertate reeenti 
Gallia, disjectam ferali fuuere classeni 
Indoluit devicta, et non reparabile vulnus. 
Tempore quo instructas vidit longo ordiue puppes 
Eostrata certare acie, et concurrere ad arma, 
^theraque impulsu tremere, Uxantisque per undas 
Lugubre lumen agi, atque rubentem fulgere fumum. 

Cerno triumpliatas acies, quo tempore Iberum 
Disjectos fastus, lacerisque aplustria velis 
Horruit Oceanus : — quali formidine Gades 
Intremere, ut fracta classem se mole moventem 
Hospitium petere, et portus videre relictos ! 

Quid referam, nobis quae nuper adorea risit, 
Te rursus superante, die quo decolor ibajb 
Sanguine Belgaeubi Rhenus, fluctusque minores 
Volvebat, frustra indignans polluta cruore 
Ostia, et Angliaco tremefactas fulmine rupes. 

Cerno pias sedes procul, et regalia quondam 
Atria, cgeruleis qute pretcrlabitur undis 
Velivolus Thamesis ; materno ubi denique nautas 
Excipis amplexu, virtus quoscumque virilis 
Per pelagi impulerit discrimina, quselibefc ausos 
Pro Patria. Hic rude donautur, dulcique senescunt 
Hospitio emeriti, placidaque quiete potiti 
Vulnera praeteritos jactant testantia casus. 

Macte ideo decus Oceani ! macte omne per sevum 
Victrix, sequoreo stabilita Britannia regno ! 
Litoribusque tuis ne propugnacula tantum 
Prsesidio fore, nee saxi munimina credas. 
Nee tantum quae mille acies in utrumque parantur, 
Aut patriam tutari, aut non superesse cadenti ; 



260 POETKY OF 

Invictae quantum metuenda tonitrua Classis, 
Angliacas Classis ; — quae majestate vereuda 
TJltrix, inconcussa, diii dominabitur orbi, 
Hostibus iuvidiosa tuis, et saepe triumphis 
Nobilitata ubvis, pelagi Eegina subacti. 



TRANSLATION OF THE PRECEDING POEM.* 
By the late A. F. Westmacott, Esq. 

Men of Learning, 

If by chance the following little poem, on the naval glory 
of Britain, written a few years since, and very lately revised 
and corrected, please you, look in your nearest tablets for some 
private and secure place, where it may be placed to enjoy its 
good fortune. Should you confer on me this favour, I shaU be 
bomid to yon by the obligation of your kindness. 

Etonian. 

ON THE NAVAL GLOEY OF BRITAIN. 

If buoy'd by short success and fav'rmg chance. 

Wide Europe's peace-destroyer, restless France, 

Each day still onward rush with fi-esh alarms, 

And threaten ruin with her furious arms ; 

Euin to all whereon is based the throne 

That life's sweet charities have made their own ; 

Fearest thou, Britain, for thy rock-girt realm, 

With seas that foaiu around and whirlpools to o'erwhelm? 

Still in the midst of ocean firmly placed, 
Circled by mighty waves thy seat is based ! 
Not by a strait enclosed, as that fair soil 
Where Fabled Vulcan plies his fiery toil ; 
AVithin no narrow bay thy waters roll, 
No yawning gulf, no barrier rocks control. 
Wider thy space, thy realm no limit knows, 
Not Tyre so rich, not Tyrian Carthage rose. 

[* A quite literal translation of this poem would be out of the question. The 
fact is, the sentiment is superior to the execution. Can.ning could write much 
better if he chose. He might wish to fabricate an ultra- patriotic schoolboy, 
and so wrote like one ; but it is certain that as a schoolboy he has written far 
better things. Either he wrote in a hurry, or cooked up a school exercise ; the 
introduction looks like it, and the Latin Prose is as prosy as the verse is com- 
mon-place. — A. F. W.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 261 

Wilt tliou yet fear, lest here the haughty foe, 
Thy fields o'er-run, and still iinpi;iiished go ! 
Is it then nought to view th' extended strand 
O'er which stern crags like beetling turrets stand, 
And countless ports in safe embrace expand ? 
Look to thy southern waves, to Devon's fields, 
Or where green Vectis * trusty harbour yields, 
Spreading her friendly arms ; or Dover's height 
Looks on the sea with widespread canvas Avhite, 
And, perched on high, the liquid plain surveys, 
And adverse cliffs that bound the wat'i'y ways. 

Not by vague augury, nor omen slight, 

I view thy name throiigh endless ages bright ; 

While thy firm crews still prodigal of life 

Insatiate burn for fame and dare the strife. 

No coward fear they know, while stands erect 

The mighty oak with boughs umbrageous decked ; 

Majestic, high, with knotted trunk, the Queen 

Of woods ! Hereaftei", o'er the waters seen 

'Mid the dim midnight of the sounding storm 

Aloft 'twill rear the terrors of its form ; 

In vain the roaring surges round it break. 

In vain the winds their uncurbed vengeance wreak, 

Throned on such pow'rs, surrounded bj^ the sea. 

The circling waves have scarce one fear for thee. 

Thou know'st not ills that towns besieged await. 

When hostile columns thunder at the gate ; 

Pitch their dread camp with fatal ramparts round. 

And with fierce arms enclose the leaguered ground. 

Such is to thee the base of lasting fame. 
To Heav'n Bi-itannia still the dearest name ! 
Gladly I view the glories of the fight, 
Perpetual witnesses of deathless might, 
To show, bright conqueress, nations yet to be, 
What dared, what did the mistress of the sea. 

'Mid these the day with praise eternal blest 
Earns memory's tribute most, when, direful pest, 
Denouncing ruin to the world, while she 
Dared grasp the sceptre of the unconquer'd sea, 
Wild with new license, mad with hatred's heat 
France, grieved and hiunbled, viewed her ruined fleet ! 

* The Isle of Wisht. 



262 POETRY OF 

Saw how all hopes one fatal wound could mar 

When well-manned squadrons armed their prows for war ! 

When the sky trembled, and o'er Ushant's tide 

Eed glared the smoke and sickly light supplied. 

I see the conquered lines, what time proud Spain 
With tattered sailcloths thickly strewed the main ; 
How Cadiz quailed when back the shattered lieet 
Sought, in the port it left, a safe retreat. 
Why should I tell what smile of Vict'ry beamed, 
When Ehine's fair wave with Belgic slaughter gleamed ; 
When humbled waters tow'rds the sea it sped, 
Mad that its mouths with native blood were red. 
While England's thunders rolled above its rocky bed ? 

I see afar the domes that crown the tide, 
Where Thames uncounted sails in triumph glide : 
Here, the brave souls whom manly courage drove 
Through the deep's perils in a hol,y love 
Of country, find in thy maternal breast 
Their toil rewarded and their daring blest ! 
Dismissed at length from duty nobly done 
They wane in quiet 'neath the noontide sun, 
Eecal the dangers of their byegone wars, 
And boast appealing to their manhood's scars. 

On in thy race of glory, conqueress, on ! 
For every age thy sea-girt realm is won I 
Think not the fortress which thy shores uprear, 
Nor thy rock bulwarks shall inspire such fear. 
Nor the brave thousands who obey thy call, 
With thee to rise, or not survive thy fall. 
As the dread thunders of that untamed host : 
Thy fleet, Britannia, is thy proudest boast ; 
Awful, majestic, firm ; its flag unfurl'd 
Shall long wave lordly o'er the conquered world ; 
Hateful to foes for triumphs yet to be, 
The rightful Sovereign of the subject sea. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 263 

No. XXXYL* 

Monday, July 9, 1798. 
JVe shall iniss thee ; 

But yet thou shalt have freedom — 

— So ! to the Elements 

Be free, and fare thou v:eU. 

— The Tempest. 
"ITTE have now completed our Engagement with the 
'* Public. The Anti-Jacobin has been conducted 
to the close of the Session in strict conformity with the 
Principles upon which it was first undertaken. 

Its receiDtion with the Public has been highly favour- 
able : — it certainly has been out of proportion to any 
merit which has appeared in the execution of the Work, 
This is not said in the mere cant of Authorship. We 
are sensible that much of our success has been owing to 
the improved state of the Public mind ; — an improve- 
ment existing from other causes, and to which, if We 
have in any degree contributed, it has in return operated 
to our advantage, by a re-action more than equal to any 
impression which our exertions could have produced. 
There is, however, one species of merit to which We lay 
claim without hesitation : — We mean that of the Spirit 
and Principles upon which We have acted. That Spirit, 
We trust We shall leave behind us. The spell of Jaco- 
bin invnlnerability is now broken. t 

[* This valedictory Address, and the portion entitled Foreign 
Intelligence which follows the Poem, have never hitherto 
formed apart of editions of the Poetry. — Ed.] 

f We see with some pleasure, that what we anticipated is 
beginning: to take effect. A New Magazine and Review is 



264 POETRY OF 

We know from better authority than that of Camille 
Jordan, that one of our Daily Papers was, early in the 
French Eevohition, purchased by France, and devoted to 
the dissemination of tenets, which, at the period to which 
We allude, sefemed necessary to the success of the Euling 
Party. 

For some time matters went on swimmingly. The 
Editors of the favoured Prints divided their time and 
their attention between London and Paris ; and the 
superiority of the governing Party in France, over its 
Opponents, was as duly, and as strenuously maintained 
in the English Papers, as in the " Journal du Pere de 
C/icne," ''' " Journal par UArni da Penple" j or any other 
Journal that issued from the Presses of the Jacobin 
Society. 

As the principles of the Eevolution, however, acquired 
consistency in France, the struggle betw^een the Govern- 
ing Party and its Opponents became an object of less 
moment, and the Jacobins had leisure, as they long had 
had inclination, to turn their views to this Country. 

A State, enjoying under a Government which they had 
proscribed as. utterly incapable of producing either, as 
much freedom and happiness as comport with the nature 
of Man, was too bitter a satire on the decision of these 
new SoLONS, to be regarded with patience ; and the pens 
which had been so industriously employed in celebrating 
the plunderers and perturbators of France, were now 

already ach ertised, under the same Name which We had 
adopted, and professedly on the same Principles. We have no 
knowled<?e of the undertaking, bnt from report, which speaks 
favourably of it ; but We heartily wish this, and every work of 
a similar kind, a full and happj' success. 

" Published by Hebert. t Published by Marat. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 265 

engaged in the benevolent design of recommending their 
principles, and their plans of ameliorating the condition 
of the human race by Atheism and Plunder, to the serious 
notice of the People of Great Britain. 

Affairs seemed rapidly hastening to a crisis : France 
saw with delight the numbers seduced by the sophistry 
of her Writers, and by the alluring prospects of proscrip- 
tion and plunder ; and her Agents, who snuffed the scent 
of blood like Vultures, already anticipated the Eevolution 
which they now believed inevitable ; when the Ministry, 
who had viewed the progress of the evil with an anxious 
but unterrified eye, roused themselves into unexampled 
energy, and called on the Nation to rally round the Con- 
stitution which they had received from their Forefathers. 

The call was gloriously answered ; —Thousands and 
tens of thousands sprung forth in its defence ; and the 
barbarous hordes which so lately threatened its destruc- 
tion, overawed by their numbers, shrunk from the con- 
test without a struggle, and vanished from the lield. 

But the nature of a Jacobin is restless. His hatred of 
all subordination is unbounded, and his thirst of plunder 
and blood urgent and insatiable. In arms he found 
himself infinitely too weak to obtain his purpose ; he 
must, therefore, have recourse again to artifice ; and by 
fallacies and lies, endeavoured to subvert and betray the 
judgment of those he could not openly hope to subdue. 

For this purpose, the Press was engaged, and almost 
monopolized in all its branches : Eeviews, Eegisters, 
Monthly Magazines, and Morning and Evening Prints, 
sprung forth in abundance. 

Of these last (the only Publications with which We 
have any immediate concern), it is not too much to say, 



266 POETRY OF 

that they have laboured in the cause of infamy, with a 
perseverance which no sense of shame could repress, and 
no dread of punishment overcome. The objects committed 
to their charge were multifarious. They were to revile 
all Religions,"- but particularly the Christian, whose 
DIVINE FOUNDER was to be blasphemously compared to 
Bacchus, and represented as equally ideal, or, if real, 
more bestial and besotted ! They were to magnify the 
powder of France on all occasions ; to deny her murders ; 
to palliate her robberies ; to suppress all mention of her 
miseries, and to hold her forth to the unenlightened 
Englishman as the mirror of justice, and truth, and 
generosity, and meekness, and humanity, and modera- 
tion, and tender forbearance : — and, on the other hand, 
they were to depreciate the spirit, and the courage, and 
the resources of Eiu/land : they were to impede, if 
possible, and if not, to ridicule and revile, every measure 
which the honour, the prosperity, or the safety of the 
Country might imperiously require ; they w'ere to repre- 
sent the Government as insidiously aiming to enslave the 
Nation, by every attempt to maintain its Independence ; 
and the majority of both Houses, the great body of Pro- 
prietors, as anxious to scatter and confound that wealth, 
which their Patrons alone, the respectable sweepings of 
Craveti- House, and the Crown and Anchor Tavern, were 
solicitous to augment and preserve. 

These, our readers will allow, were no common objects, 
and if they have looked into the Morning Chronicle, Morn- 
ing Post, and Courier Jounials to which our attention 
has been chiefly directed, they must have seen that their 
attainment was sought by no common means ; by an 
invariable course of Falsehood and Misrepresentation — 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 267 

such, at least, was our idea on the first perusal of these 
Papers, an idea which every succeeding one served to 
strengthen and confirm. 

To detect and expose this Falsehood, and to correct 
this Misrepresentation, became at length an object of 
indispensable necessity : a variety of applications of the 
most malignant nature had obtained currency and credit, 
from the unblushing impudence with which they w-ere 
first obtruded on the Public by the Agents of Sedition, 
and the apathy with which they were suffered to pass 
uncontradicted by those who despised them for their 
atrocity, or ridiculed them for their folly : — these were 
unfortunately operating on the less enlightened part of 
the Nation ; and it was from a full conviction of the 
pernicious effects they w^ere calculated to produce, that 
we finally determined to step forth (after patiently 
waiting to see whether the business would not be 
taken up by abler hands), and to oppose such anti- 
dotes to the evil, as a regard for truth, and a sincere 
love and veneration for the Constitution under which 
we have flourished for ages, could supply. 

How we have succeeded must be left to the judgment 
of the Public. If we might venture, indeed, to conjecture 
from the support w^hich we have experienced, the result 
would be flattering in an unusual degree. Three com- 
plete Editions of our Paper (a circumstance, we believe, 
as yet without a precedent) have been disposed of, and 
the demand for them still increases. 

But the motives of Profit, as will readily, we believe, 
be granted to us, have little influence on our minds : we 
contemplate the extensive circulation of our Paper with 
pleasure, solely from the consideration of the vast 



268 POETRY OF 

NUMBERS of our Couiitrymen whom we have fortified 
by our animadversions against the profligate attacks of 
the Agents of Sedition, w^hether furnislied by the WJiig 
CInh, tlie Correspondhiij Socief/j, or the Directory of France. 

Calculation "was not originally our delight. Nor was it 
till after we saw the w^onderful effects which it produced 
in the pages of the Jacobinical Arithmeticians that we 
were tempted to adopt it. Our first Essay, however, 
was crowned with the most complete success. In our 
Seventh Number, we gave (still following the laudable 
example of the Jacobins, who, when a Ship is to be 
fitted out, or a Eegiment raised, for the purpose of 
defending our Country from an insolent and barbarous 
foe, nicely calculate how many idle mouths might be 
fed by the sums required) — We gave, we say, as accurate 
a statement as we could form, of the number of People 
that might be supplied with wholesome food for one day, 
by the surcharge levied on the Duke of Bedford — a 
statement which, we are happy to add, placed the 
matter in so clear a light that we have since had no 
occasion to repeat it. 

Our Readers will not now be surprised if we again have 
recourse to Calrulatio/i to prove the advantages which (we 
love to flatter ourselves) have been derived from our Paper. 
Our Sale (to say nothing of the new Editions wiiich have 
been disposed of) has regularly amounted to Two Thousand 
Five Hundred a week ; on an average of several Papers, 
we find the Lies which have been detected to amount to 
six, and the Misrepresentations and Mistakes to an equal 
number. This furnishes a total of twelre, which, multi- 
plied by thirtij-fi.m, the number of the last Anti-Jacobin, 
gives a total oifour hundred and twenty. 



THE ANTI- JACOBIN. 269 

If we now take the number of Subscribers (2500) and 
multiply them by seven, a number of which every one's 
family may be reasonably supposed to consist, we shall 
have a product of 17,500 ; but as many of these have 
made a practice, which we highly approve, and cannot 
too earnestly recommend, of lending our Papers to their 
poorer Neighbours, We must make our addition to the 
sum which We evidently take too low at 32,500. We 
have thus an aggregate of 50,000 People, a most re- 
spectable minority of the Eeaders of the whole Kingdom, 
who have been put effectually on their guard, by our 
humble though earnest endeavours, against the artifices 
of the seditious, and the more open attacks of the pro- 
fligate and abandoned Foes of their Constitution, their 
Country, and their God. 

Further, if we multiply 50,000, the number of Eeaders, 
by 420, the exact number of Falsehoods detected — say 500 
— for W^e ought to take in bye-blows, and odd refutations 
in notes, &c. — the total of Twenty-five Millions will re- 
present the aggregate of Falsehood which We have sent 
out of the World. 

We have more than once repeated that we entered 
upon this part of our task, not from any vain hope of 
convincing the Writers themselves. We knew this to 
be impossible ; the forehead of a Jacobin, like the shield 
of Ajax, is formed of seven bull-hides, and utterly in- 
capable of any impression of shame or remorse — but we 
are convinced that we have rescued, as we stated above. 
Fifty Thousand persons from their machinations, and 
taught them not only a salutary distrust, but a con- 
tempt and disbelief, of every laboured article which 
appears in the Papers of this description. 



270 POETKY OF 

Nor can We be accused of presumption in this declara- 
tion, when itss considered that the conviction on which 
We so confidently rely is not the effect of a solitarij 
impression on our Eeaders' minds, but of one four 
hundred and tHventy times repeated (this being the fair 
amount of the number of Lies, &c., We have detected) — ■ 
an agglomeration of impulse which no prejudice could 
resist and no pre-conceived partialities weaken or re- 
move. 

Here then We rest. We trust We have "done the 
State some service"; — We have driven the Jacobins 
from many strongholds to which they most tenaciously 
held.* We have exposed their Principles, detected their 
Motives, weakened their Authority, and overthrown 
their Credit. We have shewn them in every instance, 
ignorant, and designing, and false, and wicked, and 
turbulent, and anarchical— various in their language, 
but united in their plans, and steadily pursuing through 
hatred and contempt, the destruction of their Country. 

With this impression on the Minds of our Eeaders We 
TAKE OUR LEAVE of them. Their welfare is in their own 
hands ; if they suffer the Jacobins to regain any of the 
influence of which We have deprived them, they will 
compromise their own Safety ; but We shall be blame- 
less — Liheravimus anlmas nostras. — We have done ouk 
DUTY. 

* See the Eemarks on the Treaties of Pilnitz and Pavia, &c.; 
on Tate's Manifesto; on Neutral Navigation, on the Treatment 
of Prisoners ; on the Continuation of the War for a Spice Island, 
&c., &c., &c. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 271 

POETEY. 



New Morality. 

From mental mists to purge a nation's eyes; 

To animate the weak, unite the wise ; 

To trace the deep infection that pervades 

The crowded town, and taints the rural shades ; 

To mark how wide extends the mighty waste 

O'er the fair realms of Science, Learning, Taste ; 

To drive and scatter all the brood of lies, 

And chase the varying falsehood as it flies ; 

The long arrears of ridicule to pay, 

To drag reluctant dulness back to day ; 10 

Much yet remains. — To you these themes belong. 

Ye favoured sons of virtue and of song ! 

Say, is the field too narrow? are the times 
Barren of folly, and devoid of crimes ? 

Yet, venial vices, in a milder age, 
Could rouse the warmth of Pope's satiric rage : 
The doating miser, and the lavish heir. 
The follies and the foibles of the fair. 
Sir Job, Sir Balaam, and old Euclio's thrift, 
x\nd Sappho's diamonds with her dirty shift, 20 

Blunt, Charteris, Hopkins, — meaner subjects fired 
The keen-eyed Poet ; while the Muse inspired 
Her ardent child — entwining, as he sate, 
His laurel'd ehaplet with the thorns of hate. 

But say, — indignant does the Muse retire. 
Her shrine deserted, and extinct its fire ? 
No pious hand to feed the sacred flame. 
No raptured soul a poet's charge to claim ? 



272 POETRY OF 

Bethink thee, Giffoed ; when some future age 
Shall trace the promise of thy playful page ; — 30 

' ' '■'■ The hand which brushed a swarm of fools away 
Should rouse to grasp a more reluctant prey ! " — 
Think then, will pleaded indolence excuse 
The tame secession of thy languid Muse ? 

Ah ! where is now that promise ? why so long 
Sleep the keen shafts of satire and of song ? 
Oh ! come, with taste and virtue at thy side, 
With ardent zeal inflamed, and patriot pride ; 
With keen poetic glance direct the blow, 
And empty all thy quiver on the foe : — 40 

No pause — no rest — till weltering on the ground 
The poisonous hydra lies, and pierced with many a 
wound. 

Thou too! — the nameless Bard,t — whose honest 
zeal 
For law, for morals, for the public v/eal. 
Pours down impetuous on thy country's foes 
The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose ; 
Thou too ! though oft thy ill-advised dislike 
The guiltless head with random censure strike, — 
Though quaint allusions, vague and undefined, 
Play faintly round the ear, but mock the mind ; — 50 

* See the motto prefixed to The Baviacl, a satirical poem, 
by W. Gitibi'd, Esq., imquestionably the best of its kind since 
the days of Pope : 

Nmic in ovilia 
Mox in rekictantes dracones. 
tThe author of The Fursuits of Literature. [Now known 
to be T. J. Mathias, editor of various Italian works, and teacher 
of Italian to tlie family of K. George III. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 273 

Through the mix'd mass yet truth and learning shine, 
And manly vigour stamps the nervous line ; 
And patriot warmth the generous rage inspires, 
And wakes and points the desultory fires ! 

Yet more remain unknown : —for who can tell 
What bashful genius, in some rural cell, 
As year to year, and day succeeds to day, 
In joyless leisure wastes his life away ? 
In. him the flame of early fancy shone ; 
His genuine worth his old companions own ; 60 

In childhood and in youth their chief confess'd, 
His master's pride, his pattern to the rest. 
Now, far aloof retiring from the strife 
Of busy talents, and of active life, 
As from the loop-holes of retreat he views 
Our stage, verse, pamphlets, politics, and news, 
He loathes the world, — or, with reflections sad. 
Concludes it irrecoverably mad ; 
Of taste, of learning, morals, all bereft, 
No hope, no prospect to redeem it left. 70 

Awake ! for shame ! or e'er thy nobler sense 
Sink in th' oblivious pool of indolence ! 
Must wit be found alone on falsehood's side, 
Unknown to truth, to virtue unallied? 
Arise ! nor scorn thy country's just alarms ; 
Wield in her cause thy long-neglected arms : 
Of lofty satire pour th' indignant strain, 
Leagued with her friends, and ardent to maintain 
'Gainst Learning's, Virtue's, Truth's, Eeligion's foes, 
A kingdom's safetv, and the world's repose. 80 

18 



274 POETRY OF 

If Vice appal thee, — if thou view with awe 
Insults that brave, and crimes that 'scape the law ; 
Yet may the specious bastard brood, which claim 
A spurious homage under Virtue's name, 
Sprung from that parent of ten thousand crimes, 
The New Pliilosophy of modern times, — 
Yet, these may rouse thee ! — With unsparing hand, 
Oh, lash the vile impostures from the land ! 

First, stern Philanthropy : — not she, who dries 
The orphan's tears, and wipes the widow's eyes ; 90 

Not she, who sainted Charity her guide, 
Of British bounty pours the annual tide : — 
But French Philanthropy; — whose boundless mind 
Glows with the general love of all mankind ; — 
Philanthropy, — beneath whose baneful sway 
Each patriot passion sinks, and dies away. 

Taught in her school to imbibe thy mawkish strain, 
CoNDORCET, filtered through the dregs of Paine, 
Each pert adept disowns a Briton's part, 
And plucks the name of England from his heart. 100 

What ! shall a name, a word, a sound, control 
Th' aspiring thought, and cramp th' expansive soul '? 
Shall one half-peopled Island's rocky round 
A love, that glows for all creation, bound ? 
And social charities contract the plan 
Framed for thy freedom, universal Man ! 
No — through th' extended globe his feelings run 
As broad and general as th' unbounded sun ! 
No narrow bigot he ; — his reason'd view 
Thy interests, England, ranks with thine, Peru ! 110 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 275 

France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, 
But heaves for Turkey's woes th' iiiipartial sigh ; 
A steady patriot of the world alone. 
The friend of every country — but his own. 

Next comes a gentler Virtue. — Ah ! beware 
Lest the harsh verse her shrinking softness scare. 
Visit her not too roughly ; — the warm sigh 
Breathes on her lips ; — the tear-drop gems her eye. 
Sweet Sensibility, who dwells enshrined 
In the fine foldings of the feeling mind ; 120 

With delicate Mimosa's sense endued, 
"Who shrinks instinctive from a hand too rude ; 
Or, like the Anagallis, prescient flower, 
Shuts her soft petals at the approaching shower. 

Sweet child of sickly Fancy ! — her of yore 
From her loved France Eousseau to exile bore ; 
And, while 'midst lakes and mountains wild he ran, 
Full of himself, and shunn'd the haunts of man, 
Taught her o'er each lone vale and Alpine steep 
To lisp the story of his wrongs, and weep ; 130 

Taught her to cherish still in either eye, 
Of tender tears a plentiful supply. 
And pour them in the brooks that babbled by ; 
Taught by nice scale to mete her feelings strong. 
False by degrees, and exquisitely wrong ; 
For the crush'd beetle, first, — the widow'd dove. 
And all the warbled sorrows of the grove ; 
Next for poor suff'ring Guilt ; and last of all, 
For parents, friends, a king and country's fall. 

Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief, 140 

With cureless pangs, and woes that mock relief. 



276 POETBY OF 

Droop in soft sorrow o'er a faded flower ; 

O'er a dead Jack- Ass pour the pearly shower ; 

But hear, unmoved, of Loire's ensanguined flood, 

Choked up with slain ; of Lyons drenched in blood ; 

Of crimes that blot the age, the world, with shame, 

Foul crimes, but sicklied o'er with Freedom's name ; 

Altars and thrones subverted ; social life 

Trampled to earth, — the husband from the wife, 

Parent from child, with ruthless fury torn, — 150 

Of talents, honour, virtue, wit, forlorn. 

In friendless exile, — of the wise and good 

Staining the daily scaffold with their blood, — 

Of savage cruelties, that scare the mind. 

The rage of madness with hell's lusts combined, — 

Of hearts torn reeking from the mangled breast, — 

They hear, — and hope that all is for the best. 

Fond hope ! but Justice sanctifies the prayer — 
Justice ! here, Satire, strike ! 'twere sin to spare ! 
Not she in British Courts that takes her stand, 160 

The dawdling balance dangling in her hand, 
Adjusting punishments to fraud and vice. 
With scrupulous quirks, and disquisition nice : 
But firm, erect, with keen reverted glance, 
Th' avenging angel of regenerate France, 
Who visits ancient sins on modern times, 
And punishes the Pope for Cesar's crimes.* 

* The Manes of Vercengetorix are supposed to have been 
very much grc.tified by the invasion of Italy and the plunder of 
the Roman territory. The defeat of the Ijurgundians is to be 
revenged on the modern inhabitants of Switzerland. But the 
Swiss were a free people, defending their liberties against a 
tyrant. Moreover, they happened to be in alliance with 
France at the time. No matter ; Burcjimdij is smce become 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 277 

Such is the Hberal Justice which presides 
In these our days, and modern patriots guides ; — 
Justice, whose blood-stain'd book one sole decree, 170 
One statute, fills — "the People shall be Free ! " 
Free ! By what means ? — by folly, madness, guilt, 
By boundless rapines, blood in oceans spilt ; 
By confiscation, in whose sweeping toils 
The poor man's pittance with the rich man's spoils, 
Mix'd in one common mass, are swept away. 
To glut the short-lived tyrant of the day ; — 
By laws, religion, morals, all o'erthrown : — 
Eouse, then, ye sovereign people, claim your own : 
The license that enthrals, the truth that blinds, 180 

The wealth that starves you, and the power that grinds ! 
So Justice bids. — 'Twas her enlighten'd doom, 
Louis, thy holy head devoted to the tomb ! 
'Twas Justice claim'd, in that accursed hour. 
The fatal forfeit of too lenient power. 
Mourn for the Man we may ; — but for the King, — 
Freedom, oh! Freedom's such a charming thing ! 

"Much maybe said on both sides." — Hark! I hear 
A well-known voice that murmurs in my ear, — 
The voice of Candour. — Hail! most solemn sage, 190 

Thou drivelling virtue of this moral age, 
Candour, which softens party's headlong rage. 
Candour, — which spares its foes ; — nor e'er descends 
With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. 

a province of France, and the French have acquired a property 
in all the injuries and defeats which the people of that coitntry 
may have sustained, toj^fether with a title to revenge and retalia- 
tion to be exercised in the present or any future centuries, as 
may be foiind most glorious and convenient. 



278 POETRY OF 

Candour, — which loves in see-saw strain to tell 

Of acting foolislily, but meaning well ; 

Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame. 

Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; 

And finds, with keen discriminating sight, 

Black's not so black ; — nor White so very white. 200 

" Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong : 
But then, Pitt's words, you'll own, were rather strong. 
Both must be blamed, both pardon'd ; 'twas just so 
With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ! 
So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times 
Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." 

Give me th' avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; 
But of all plagues, good Heav'n, thy wrath can send, 
Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend ! 210 

" Barras loves plunder. Merlin takes a bribe, — 
What then ! — shall Candour these goodj menj[" pro- 
scribe ? 
No ! ere we join the loud-accusing throng. 
Prove, — not the facts, — but, that theij tho^igld them, 
wrong. 

" Why hang O'Quigley ? — he, misguided man, 
In sober thought his counti-y's weal might plan : 
And, while his deep-wrought Treason sapp'd the throne, 
Might act from taste in morals, all his own." 

Peace to such Eeasoners ! let them have their way ; 
Shut their dull eyes against the blaze of day ; 220 

Priestley's a Saint, and Stone a Patriot still ; 
And La Fayette a Hero, if they will. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 279 

I love the bold uncompromising mind, 
Whose principles are fix'd, whose views defined ; 
Who scouts and scorns, in canting Candoub's spite, 
All taste in morals, innate sense of right, 
And Nature's impulse, all uncheck'd by art, 
And feelings fine, that float about the heart : 
Content, for good men's guidance, bad men's awe, 
On moral truth to rest, and Gospel law. 230 

Who owns, when Traitors feel th' avenging rod. 
Just retribution, and the hand of God ; 
Who hears the groans through Obniitz' roofs that ring, 
Of him who mock'd, misled, betray'd his King — 
Hears unappall'd, though Faction's zealots preach, 
Unmov'd, unsoften'd by Fitzpatrick's Speech.* 

That Speech on which the melting Commons hung, 
"While truths divine came mended from Jiis tongue"; 

* The speech of General Fitzpatrick, on his motion for 
an Address of the House of Commons to the Emperor of Ger- 
many, to demand the deliverance of M. La Fayette from the 
prison of Ohniitz, was one of the most dainty pieces of oratory 
that ever drew tears from a crowded gallery, and the clerks at 
the table. It was really quite moving to hear the General talk 
of religion, conjugal fidelity, and " such branches of learning ". 
There were a few who laughed indeed, but that was thought 
hai'd-hearted, and immoral, and irreligious, and God knows 
what. Crymg was the order of the day. Why will not the 
Opposition try these topics again ? La Fayette indeed (the 
more's the pity) is out. But whj' not a motion for a general 
gaol-delivery of all state prisoners throughout Europe 1 [This 
was Fitzpatrick's master-speech, and extorted the applauses of 
Pitt himself, who nevertheless resisted its arguments. Burke 
said that La Fayette, "instead of bemg termed an 'illustrious 
exile,' ought always to be considered, as he now was, an outcast 
of society ; who, havmg no talents to guide or influence the storm 
which he had laboured to raise, fled like a dastard from the blood- 
shed and massacre in which he had involved so many thousands 
of unoffending persons and families ". — Ed.] 



280 POETRY OF 

How loving husband clings to duteous wife, — 

How pure Eeligion soothes the ills of life, — 240 

How Popish ladies trust their pious fears 

And naughty actions in their chaplains' ears. — 

Half novel and half sermon, on it flow'd ; 

With pious zeal the Opposition glow'd ; 

And as o'er each the soft infection crept, 

Sigh'd as he whin'd, and as he whimper'd, wept ; — 

E'en CuRWEN * dropt a sentimental tear. 

And stout St. Andrew yelp'd a softer " Hear ! " 



Oh ! nurse of crimes and fashions ! which in vain 
Our colder servile spirits would attain, 250 

How do we ape thee, France ! but, blundering still, 
Disgrace the pattern by our want of skill. 
The borrow'd step our awkward gait reveals : 
(As clumsy Courtenay t mars the verse he steals.) 
How do we ape thee, France ! — nor claim alone 
Thy arts, thy tastes, thy morals, for our own, 260 

But to thy Worthies render homage due, 
Their \ " hair-breadth scapes " with anxious interest 
view ; 

* " Now all the while did not this stony-hearted cur shed one 
tear."— Meixhant of Venice. [John Curwen- member for the 
city of Carlisle, from 1786 till 1812. He was a skilful agricul- 
turist, and his operations may be said to have given a new 
character to the business of farming. He died in 1828, aged 
73.- Ed.] 

t See page 72, in the note, for a theft more shameless, and 
an application of the thing stolen more stupid, than any of 
those recorded of Irish story-tellers by Joe Miller. 

J See Ee'cit de vies Perils, by Louvet ; Memoires d'un De'tenu, 
by EioUFFE, &c. The avidity with which these productions 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 281 

Statesmen and Heroines whom this age adores, 
Though plainer times would call them Eogues and 
Whores. 260 

See LouvET, patriot, pamphleteer, and sage, 
Tempering with amorous fire his virtuous rage. 
Form'd for all tasks, his various talents see, 
The luscious Novel, the severe Decree. 
Then mark him welt 'ring in his nasty sty, 
Bare his lewd transports to the public eye. 
Not Ms the love in silent groves that strays. 
Quits the rude world, and shuns the vulgar gaze. 
In Lodoiska's full possession blest, 

One craving void still aches within his breast ; 270 

Plunged in the filth and fondness of her arms. 
Not to himself alone he stints her charms ; 
Clasp'd in each other's foul embrace they lie, 
But know no joy, unless the World stands by. 
The fool of vanity, for her alone 
He lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. 

His widow'cl mourner flies to poison's aid, 
Eager to join her Louvet's parted shade 
In those bright realms where sainted lovers stray. 
But harsh emetics tear that hope away.* 280 

were read, might, we shoiild hope, be accounted for upon 
principles of mere ciariosity (as we read the Newgate Calendar, 
and the history of the Buccaneers), not from any interest in 
favour of a set of wretches infinitely more detestable than all 
the robbers and pirates that ever existed. 

* Every lover of modern French literature, and admirer of 
modern French characters, must remember the rout which was 
made about Louvet's death and Lodoisiva's poison. The at- 
tempt at self- slaughter, and the process of the recovery, the 
arsenic and the castor oil, were served up in daily messes from 
the French papers, till the public absolutely sickened. 



282 POETEY OF 

Yet hapless Louvet ! where thy bones are laid, 
The easy nymphs shall consecrate the shade.* 
There in the laughing morn of genial spring, 
Unwedded pairs shall tender couplets sing ; 
Eringoes o'er the hallow'd spot shall bloom. 
And flies of Spain buzz softly round the tomb.f 

But hold, severer virtue claims the Muse — 
EoLAND the just, with ribands in his shoes — :j: 
And Eoland's spouse, who paints with chaste delight 
The doubtful conflict of her nuptial night ; — 290 

Her virgin charms what fierce attacks assail'd. 
And how the rigid Minister § prevail'd. 

And ah ! what verse can grace thy stately mien. 
Guide of the world, preferment's golden queen, 
Neckae's fair daughter, — Stael the Epicene ! 
Bright o'er whose flaming cheek and pumple |1 nose 
The bloom of young desire unceasing glows ! 
Fain would the Muse — but ah ! she dares no more, 
A mournful voice from lone Guyana's shore, II 

* Faciles Napece. t See Anthologia, passim. 

J Such was the strictness of this minister's principles, that 
he positively refused to go to Court in shoe-buckles. See 
Dumouriez's Memoirs. 

§ See Madame Eoland's Memoirs. — ^^ Rigide Ministre," Brissot 
a ses Commettans. 

II The "pumple" nosed attorney of Furnival's Inn. — Con- 
greve's fVay of the JForld." [. . , When you liv'd with honest 
Pumple Nose, the attorney of Furnival's Inn. Act 3, sc. 1.] — 
Ed. 

^ These lines contain the Secret History of Quatremer's 
deportation. He presumed in the Council of Five Hundred 
to arraign Madame De Stael's conduct, and even to hint a 
doubt of her sex. He was sent to Guyana. The transaction 
nati;rally brings to one's mind the dialogue between Falstaff 
and Hostess Quickly in Shakespeare's Henry IV. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 283 

Sad QuATREMEE — the bold presumption checks, 300 

Forbid to question thy ambiguous sex. 

To thee, proud Barras bows; — thy charms control 
Eewbell's brute rage, and Merlin's subtle soul ; 
Eais'd by thy hands, and fashion'd to thy will, 
Thy power, thy guiding influence, governs still. 
Where at the blood-stain'd board expert he plies. 
The lame artificer of fraud and lies ; 
He with the mitred head and cloven heel ; — 
Doom'd the coarse edge of Eewbell's jests to feel ; * 
To stand the playful buffet, and to hear 310 

The frequent ink-stand whizzing past his ear ; 
While all the five Directors laugh to see 
" The limping priest so deft at his new ministry ".f 

Last of th' anointed Five behold, and least, 
The Directorial Lama, Sovereign Priest, — 
Lepaux ; — whom atheists worship ; — at whose nod 
Bow their meek heads the Meji iinthoid a God.X 

Fed. Thoii ai't neither fish nor flesh — a man cannot tell where 
to have thee. 

Quick. Thou art an iTnjnst man for saying so — thou or any 
man knows where to have me. 

* For instance, in the course of a political discussion Eew- 
BELL observed to the ex-bishop [Talleyrand] , " that his under- 
standing ims as crooked as his legs "— " Vil Emigre, tu n'as pas le 
sens plus droit que les pieds " — and therewith threw an ink- 
stand at him. It whizzed along, as we have been informed, 
like the fragment of a rock from the hand of one of Ossian's 
heroes ; but the wily apostate shrmik beneath the table, and 
the weapon passed over him innocuous, and guiltless of his 
blood or brains. 

t See Homer's description of Vulcan. First Iliad. 

Inextinguibilis vero exoriebatiu' risus beatis numinibus 
Ut viderunt Vulcanum per domos ministrantem. 

X The Men without a God — one of the new sects. Their re- 
ligion is intended to consist in the adoration of a Great Book, 



284 POETBY OF 

Ere long, perhaps, to this astonish'd isle, 
Fresh from the shores of subjugated Nile, 
Shall Buonaparte's victor fleet protect 320 

The genuine Theo-Philanthropic sect, — 
The sect of M!abat, Mirabeau, Voltaire, — 
Led by their Pontiff, good La Eeveillere. 
Eejoiced our Clubs shall greet him, and install 
The holy Hunchback in thy dome, St. Paul! 
While countless votaries, thronging in his train, 
Wave their red caps, and hymn this jocund strain: — 

" Couriers and Stars, Sedition's evening host, 
Thou Morning Chronicle and Morning Post, 
Whether ye make the Eights of Man your theme, 330 

Your country libel, and your God blaspheme. 
Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw. 
Still, blasphemous or blackguard, praise Lepaux ! 

" And ye five other wandering bards, that move 
In sweet accord of harmony aiid love, 
Coleridge and Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb & Co. 
Tune all your mystic harps to praise Lepaux ! 

" Priestley and Wakefield, humble, holy men, 
Give praises to his name with tongue and pen ! 

" Thelwall, and ye that lecture as ye go, 340 

And for your pains get pelted, praise Lepaux ! 

" Praise him each Jacobin, or Pool, or Knave, 
And your cropp'd heads in sign of worship wave ! 

in which all the virtuous actions of tlie societj^ are to be entered 
and registered. " In times of civil commotion they are to come 
forward to exhort the citizens to luianimity, and to read tliena a 
chapter out of the Great Book. "When oppressed or proscribed, 
they are to retire to a burying-ground, to wrap themselves up in 
their great-coats, and wait the approach of death," &c. 




sJua&irru iin>6 itself i^ fim iH fyt u/wn, Ih. miufiuCmj tik(t V-ti/tk' mcist ojf iS Rattlt. fasamiSii £c unfmAi lit im/crtumtl^ 
Vic&v tiU. Losing aM.Snut.lCiiuamnwnl, it Urn .ilIuw/ vntj Ih^Mavlk (rj-tfis,hcfn! AipVCar, fii^.^n^.^fuii' mlili—^ 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 285 

" x\ll creeping creatures, venomous and low, 
Paine, Williams, Godwin, Holceoft, praise Lepaux ! 

" and with join'd,* 



And every other beast after his kind. 

" And thou, Leviathan ! on ocean's brim 
Hugest of hving things that sleep and swim ; 
Thou, in whose nose, by Burke's gigantic hand 350 

The hook was fixed to drag thee to the land. 

With , , and , in thy train, 

And wallowing in the yeasty main, — f 

Still as ye snort, and puff, and spout, and blow, 
In pufiing, and in spouting, praise Lepaux ! 



Britain, beware ; nor let th' insidious foe. 
Of force despairing, aim a deadlier blow ; 
Thy Peace, thy Strength, with devilish wiles assail, 
And when her Arms are vain, by Arts prevail. 
True, thou art rich, art powerful ! — thro' thine Isle 360 

Industrious skill, contented labour, smile ; 
Far Seas are studded with thy countless sails ; 
What wind but wafts them, and what shore but hails ! 
True, thou art brave ! — o'er all the busy land 
In patriot ranks embattled myriads stand ; 

« The Eeader is at liberty to fill lap the blanks according to 
his own opinion, and after the chances and changes of the times. 
It would be highly mifair to hand down to posterity as followers 
of Leviathan, the names of men who may, and probably will 
soon, grow ashamed of their leader. 

t Though the yeasty sea 
Consume and swallow navigation up. Macbeth. 
[Applied to S. "Whitbread, M.P., the Breu-er.—ED.] 



286 POETEY OF 

Thy foes behold with impotent amaze 
And drop the Hfted weapon as they gaze 

But what avails to guard each outward part, 
If subtlest poison, circling at thy heart, 
Spite of thy courage, of thy pow'r, and wealth, 370 

Mine the sound fabric of thy vital health ? 

So thine own Oak, by some fair streamlet's side. 
Waves its broad arms, and spreads its leafy pride, 
Tow'rs from the earth, and rearing to the skies 
Its conscious strength, the tempest's wrath defies. 
Its ample branches shield the fowls of air, 
To its cool shade the panting herds repair. 
The treacherous current works its noiseless way, 
The fibres loosen, and the roots decay ; 
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies ; and all 380 

That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. 

thou ! lamented Sage ! whose prescient scan 
Pierc'd through foul Anarchy's gigantic plan, 
Prompt to incredulous hearers to disclose 
The guilt of France, and Europe's world of woes ; — 
Thou, on whose name each distant age shall gaze, 
The mighty sea-mark of these troubled days ! 
large of soul, of genius unconfin'd. 
Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind ! 
BuKKE ! in whose breast a Koman ardour glow'd ; 390 

Whose copious tongue with Grecian richness flow'd; 
Well hast thou found (if such thy country's doom), 
A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb ! 

As, in far realms, where eastern kings are laid. 
In pomp of death, beneath the cypress shade, 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 287 

The perfuni'd lamp with unextinguish'd light 

Flames through the vault, and cheers the gloom of 

night : 
So, mighty Bukke ! in thy sepulchral urn. 
To Fancy's view, the lamp of Truth shall burn. 
Thither late times shall tuni their reverent eyes, 400 

Led by thy light, and by thy wisdom wise. 

There are, to whom {then- taste such pleasures cloy) 
No light thy wisdom yields, thy wit no joy. 
Peace to their heavy heads, and callous hearts, 
Peace — such as sloth, as ignorance imparts ! 
Pleas'd may they live to plan their country's good. 
And crop with calm content their fiow'ry food ! 

What though thy venturous spirit loved to urge 
The labouring theme to Eeason's utmost verge, 
Kindling and mounting from th' enraptur'd sight ; 410 
Still anxious wonder watch'd thy daring flight ! 
While vulgar minds, with mean malignant stare, 
Gazed up, the triumph of thy fall to share ! 
Poor triumph ! price of that extorted praise. 
Which still to daring Genius Envy pays. 

Oh ! for thy playful smile, thy potent frown. 
To abash bold Vice, and laugh pert Folly down ! 
So should the Muse, in Humour's happiest vein. 
With verse that flowed in metaphoric strain, 
And apt allusions to the rural trade, 420 

Tell of icliat ■wood i/oung Jacobins ai-e made ; 
How the skill'd gardener grafts with nicest rule 
The sli}) of coxcomb on the dock of fool ; 



288 POETEY OF 

Forth in bright blossom bursts the tender sprig, 

A thing to wonder at — * perhaps a Whin : 

Should tell, how wise each half-fledged pedant prates 

Of weightiest matters, grave distinctions states, 

That rules of policy, and public good, 

In Saxon times were rightly understood ; 

That kings are proper, mai/ be useful things, 430 

But then, some gentlemen object to kings ; 

That in all times the minister's to blame ; 

That British liberty's an empty name, 

Till each fair burgh, numerically free. 

Shall choose its members by the Rule of Three. 

So should the Muse, with verse in thunder clothed. 
Proclaim the crimes by God and Nature loathed. 
Which — when fell poison revels in the veins — 
(That poison fell, which frantic Gallia drains 
From the crude fruit of Freedom's blasted tree) 440 

Blot the fair records of Humanity. 

To feebler nations let proud France afford 
Her damning choice, — the chalice or the sword, 
To drink or die ; — fraud ! O specious lie ! 
Delusive choice ! for if they drink, they die, 

* i.e. Perhaps a member of the Whig Club — a society that has 
presumed to nionopoHze to itself a title to which it never had 
any claim, but from the character of those who have now with- 
drawn themselves from it. '■'■Perhaps" signifies that even the 
Whig Club sometimes rejects a candidate whose principles 
{risum teneatis) it affects to disapprove. [Referrmg to the 
secession of the Duke of Portland and others from the Whig 
Club in consequence of their not approving of all the pro- 
ceedings of Fox and his more violent adherents. Sheridan met 
with so much opposition to his entrance into the Whig Club, 
that he succeeded in getting admitted only by stratagem. — Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 289 

The Sword we dread not : — of ourselves secure, 
Firm were our strength, our peace and freedom sure. 
Let all the world confederate all its powers, 
" Be they not backed by those that should be ours," 
High on his rock shall Beitain's Genius stand, 450 
Scatter the crowded hosts, and vindicate the land. 

Guard we but our own Hearts : with constant view 
To ancient morals, ancient manners true ; 
True to the manlier virtues, such as nerv'd 
Our fathers' breasts, and this proud Isle preserv'd 
For many a rugged age : and scorn the while 
Each philosophic atheist's specious guile ; 
The soft seductions, the refinements nice, 
Of gay Morality, and easy Vice ; 
So shall we brave the storm ; our 'stablish'd pow'r 
Thy refuge, Europe, in some happier hour. 461 

But, Fkench in heart, though Victory crown our brow. 
Low at our feet though prostrate Nations bow, 
Wealth gild our Cities, Commerce crowd our shore, 
London may shine, but England is no more ! 



FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE. 

In the last Address which We shall have to make to 
the Public, We would willingly review the whole of 
what has been advanced by Us under the different Heads 
of our Paper, and leave behind us a Summary of our 
Opinions upon the state of each subject as We found it, 
and as We conceive it to stand at the moment when our 
labours are concluded. 

Upon no point, if We are to speak our sincere opinion, 
19 



290 POETRY OF 

is the task more easily to be executed, or in a less com- 
pass, than in what relates to Foreign Politics. 

In other times, the relations of States to each other 
have been matter of great study, and difficulty ; have 
been embarrassed with a diversity of views, and a com- 
plication of interests, which it might require much ex- 
perience to calculate, and much political sagacity to 
reconcile. 

At present, there is but one relation among all the 
States of Europe : — one, at least, there is so paramount, 
as to confound and swallow up all inferior considerations. 

France is bent on the conquest and ruin op them 
ALL. To repel this Conquest, to ward off this ruin, various 
means are tried, according to the power or the prudence 
of the different Nations. War, Treaty, Supplication, 
Bribery, timid Neutrality, implicit Submission, and, 
finally, an Incorporation into the Map of the Great Re- 
public, are all at this moment exemplified in the con- 
duct of the Countries which surround us. 

Our lot, a lot imposed upon us by necessity, but which 
if it were not so imposed upon us, whoever is not blind, 
judicially blind to the conduct of France towards us, and 
every other Country, w^ould claim by choice, is War. 

The relation in which we may stand to the other States 
of Europe, or they to each other, is comparatively of 
little moment. They may reciprocate Missions, and 
propose Treaties, — the Ligiirian Republic may make Peace 
or War with the Cisalpine; the Cisalpine with the Roman; 
— either of them with the King of Sardinia, with Tuscany, 
or with Naples ; and the greater Powers may mediate, or 
embroil the quarrel, may offer their protection, and talk 
of their Dignity: — But the question does not lie there. — 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 291 

France has the power and the will to controul, to oppress 
them altogether ; to limit or extend their Boundaries, 
as she sees good ; to approve or annul their Internal 
Eegulations, as well as their stipulations with each other : 
And while she has that power, whether it be by strength 
in herself, or by the sufferance of others ; w^hether she 
may choose to vex and harass them in mass, or detail ; 
to keep peace between them, or to set them at variance ; 
to work their revolutions by her own arms, or to dele- 
gate that sacred office to their neighbours ; or, finally, to 
insist upon their performing it each for themselves ; — the 
result to us is the same. The People of Europe are 
equally enslaved ; — it matters not whether they are 
manacled separately, or bolted to the links of a long 
chain which connects and coerces them in a fellowship 
of misery. 

Mortalia corda 
Per gentcs humilis stravit favor. 

To Us, the relation of these unhappy Powers, is either 
that of Friends forced into a Foreign Army to fight 
against us, or placed, hand-cuffed, on the Deck of a Line 
of Battle Ship to receive our fire — or it is that of a 
Captive languishing in a Dungeon against which We 
are making an attack, and who does not dare to acknow- 
ledge his Friend, till he can hail him as his Deliverer. 

The Contest between Great Britain and France, then, 
is not for the existence of the former only, but for the 
Freedom of the World. To look to partial Interests, to 
talk of partial Successes, as bearing upon the main object 
and general issue of the War, is to take a narrow and 
pitiful view of the most momentous and most tremendous 



292 POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

subject that ever was brought under the consideration of 
mankind. 

If Great Britain, insensible of what she owes to herself 
and to the World, flinches (for she cannot fall), in the 
Contest ; — shd throws away not herself alone, but the 
peace and happiness of Nations. If she maintain her- 
self stoutly ; — to speculate on the mode, the time, the 
means by which success adequate to the immensity of 
the object at stake is to be attained, were, indeed, pre- 
sumptuous ; — but We risk, without apprehension of 
being thought sanguine in our hopes and expectations, or 
of being contradicted by the event, the sentiment of the 
greatest Orator of ancient times — " It is not, it cannot 
be possible, that an Empire founded on injustice, on 
rapacity, on perfidy, on the contempt and disregard of 
everything sacred towards God, or among Men ; — it is 
not possible that such an Empire should endure." 




NOTES TO "NEW MORALITY". 

Joseph Priestley, LL.D. (page 278). 

" I have read a communication from George III. to one of his ministers, on 
the subject of the riots in which Priestley's house was burned. His Majesty 
says, in his short emphatic way, that the riots must be stopped immeiUatdy ; 
that no man's house must be left in peril ; and then he orders the march of 
certain troops, &c., to restore peace ; and concludes with saying that, as the 
mischief did occur, it was impossible not to be pleased at its having fallen on 
Priestley rather than another, that he might feel the wickedness of tlie doc- 
trines of democracy which he was propagating."—/. IF. C'roker (MS.).— [Ed.] 



Madame de Stael (page 282). 

"Madame de Stael was at Mickleham, in Surrey, in 1793, with Talleyrand, 
Narbonne, Jaucourt, Guibert (who proposed to her), and others. There was 
not a little scandal about her relations with Narbonne (see Fanny Burney's 
Letters). Narbonne's place was supplied by Benjamin Constant, who had a 
very great influence over her, as in return she had over him. At Coppet, she 
found consolation in a young officer of Swiss origin, named Rocca, twenty-three 
years her junior, whom she married privately in 1811. She had married Baron 
de Stael in 178ti, and in 1797 they separated. He died in 1802 ; and she in 1817." 
—Lite of Mad. de Stael, lnj A. Steven.'<, 1880. 

•' On the 2Sth of January" (says Crabb Robinson in his Diary, 1804), " I first 
waited on Madame de Stael. I was shown into her bedroom, for which, not 
knowing Parisian customs, I was unprepared. She was sitting, most decorously, 
ill her bed, and writing. She had her night-cap on, and her face was not made 
up for the day. It was by no means a captivating spectacle, but I had a very 
cordial reception, and two bright black eyes smiled benignantly on me. After 
a warm expression of her pleasure at making my acquaintance, she dismissed 

ine till three o'clock. On my return then I found a very different person 

the accomplished Frenchwoman surrounded by admirers, some of whom were 
themselves distinguished. Among them was the aged Wieland. There was 
on this, and, I believe, on almost every other, occasion, but one lady among 
the guests : in this instance Frau von Kalb. Madame de Stael did not affect 
to conceal her preference for the society of men to that of her own sex. " 

Count d'Orsay related of Madame de Stael, whose character was dis- 
cussed, that one day, being on a sofa with Madame de Recamier, one who 
placed himself between them exclaimed : " Me voil^ entre la beaute et I'esprit ! " 
She replied: "That is the first time I was ever complimented for beauty ! " 
Madame de Recamier was thought the handsomest woman in Paris, but was 
by no means famed for esprit. — C'raljli Rot/inson's Diary. 

" Madame de Stael was a perfect aristocrat, and her sympathies were 
wholly with the great and prosperous. She saw nothing in England but tlie 
luxury, stupidity, and pride of the Tory aristocracy, and the intelligence and 
magnificence of the Whig .aristocracy. The latter talked about truth and 
liberty and herself, and she supposed it was all as it should be. As to the 
millions, the people, she never enquired into their situation. She had a 



294 POETBY OF 

horror of the canaille, but anything of sam/re uznl had a charm for her. When 
she was dying she said ; ' I^et me die in peace ; let my last moments be undis- 
turbed '. Yet she ordered the cards of every visitor to be brought to her. 
Among them was one from the Due de Richelieu. ' What !' exclaimed she, 
indignantly; 'what! have you sent away the Duke? Hurry. Fly after him. 
Bring him back. Tell him that though I die for all the world, I live for hua.' " — 
Bowring's Autohr. Kecoltectionf!, pp. 575-6. 

Madame de Siael prepared her bons-mots with elaborate care, some being 
borrowed. . . ."'.She was ugly, and not of an intellectual ugliness. Her 
features were coarse, and the ordinary expression rather vulgar. ,She bad an 
ugly mouth, and one or two irregularly prominent teeth, which perhaps gave 
her coimtenance an habitual gaiety. Her eye was full, dark, and expressive ; 
and when she declaimed, which was almost whenever she spoke, she looked 
eloquent, and one forgot that she was plain. On the whole, she was singularly 
unfeminine ; and if, in conversation, one forgot she was ugly, one forgot also 
that she was a woman. — J. iV. Croher's Note-Books. — [Ed.] 



The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield (page 284). 

" It is well known that the French Revolution turned the brains of many of 
the noblest youths in England. Indeed wlien such men as Coleridge, Words- 
worth, SouTHEY, caught the infection, no wonder that those who partook of 
their sensibility, but had a very small portion of their intellect, were carried 
away. Many were ruined by the errors into which they were betrayed ; many 
also lived to smile at, the follies of their youth. ' I am no more .ashamed of 
having been a Republican,' said Southey, 'than I am of having been a child.' 
The opinions held led to many political prosecutions, and I naturally had 
much sympathy with the sufferers. I find in my journal, Feb. 21, 17H9 (says 
Crabb Robinson) : ' An interesting and memorable day. It was the day on 
which Gilbert Wakefield was convicted of a seditious libel, and sentenced 
to two years' imprisonment. This be suffered in Dorchester Gaol, which he 
left only to die. Originally of the Established Church, he became a Unitarian, 
and Professor at the Hackney College. By profession he was a scholar. His 
best known work was a)i edition of Lucretius. He had written against Porson's 
edition of the //tc ii'ja of Euripides.' It is said that PORSON was at a dinner- 
party at which toasts were going round, and a name, accompanied by an appro- 
priate sentence from Shakespeare, was required from each of the guests in suc- 
cession. Before Porson's turn came, he had disappeared beneath the table, 
and was supposed to be insensible to what was going on. This, however, was 
not the case, for when a toast was required of him, he staggered up and gave : 
' Gilbert Wakefield— what's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba ^ ' Wakefield was 
a political fanatic. He had the pale complexion and mild features of a Saint, 
was a most gentle creature in domestic life, and a very amiable man ; hut when 
he took part in any religious or political controversy, his pen was dipped in 
gall. The occasion of the imprisonment before alluded to was a letter in reply 
to Watso.n, Bisliop of Llandaff, who had written a pamphlet exhorting the 
people to loyalty. Wakefield asserted tliat the poor, the labouring classes, 
could lose nothing by French conquest. Referring to the fable of the Ass and 
the Trumpeter, he .said: 'Will the enemy make me carry two panniers?' and 
declared that, if the French came, they would find him at his post with the 
illustrious dead." — [Ed.] 



John Thelwall (page 284). 

" Coleridge and Southey spoke of Thelwall, calling him merely ' John '. 
Southey said : ' He is a good-hearted man ; besides we ought never to forget 
that he was once as near as possible being hanged, as there is some merit in 
that'."— Crabb Robinson's Diary. — [Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 295 

Jean Paul Marat (page 284). 

The fdllowing remarkable account of this scientific monster is given in an 
" Historical Account of the Warrington Academy, an institution in Lancashire," 
published in the Monthln Jiipnxlturi/, by the Rev. W. Turner, of Wakefield. 

"After the departure of Dis. Reinhold Forster, various unsuccessful 
attempts weie made to engage a foreigner in the capacity of teacher of the 
raodern languages— a M. Fantin la Tour, a M. le Maitre, a/ias Mara, and a 
Mr. Lewis Guery ; but none of them continued for any length of time. . . . 
There is great reason to believe that le Maitre, alias Mara, was the infamous 
Marat. . . . It is known that he was in England about this time [1774], and 
published in London "A Philosophical Essay on the connection between the 
Body and the Soul of Man," and, somewhere in the country, had a principal 
hand in printing, in quarto, a work of considerable ability, but of a seditious 
tendency, entitled—' The Chains of Slavery : a work v^herein the clandestine and 
villainous Attempts of Princes to ruin Liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful 
Scenes of Despotism disclosed, etc.; London, solel by/. Almon. . . . T. Payne, 
and Jiic'iardson and Urquhart, Wh.' MARA, as his name is spelt in the 
Minutes of the Academy, very soon left Warrington, whence he went to Oxford, 
robbed the Ashmolean Museum, escaped to Ireland, was apprehended in 
Dublin, tried and convicted in Oxford, under the name of le Maitre, and 
sentenced to the hulks at Woolwich. Here one of his old pupils at Warrington, 
a native of Bristol, saw him. He was afterwards a Bookseller in Bristol, and 
failed ; was confined in the gaol of that city, but released by the Society there 
for the relief of prisoners confined for small sums. One of that society, who 
had previously relieved him in Bristol Gaol, afterwards saw him in the National 
Assembly in Paris in 1792." 

Grave doubts have, however, been thrown upon the accuracy of the above 
statement by Henry A. Bright, B.A., in a paper published in the Transactions 
of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Ohes/iire, 8vo, vol. xi. , session 1858-9. Yet 
it was an establishment that might have attracted such a mind as Marat's. 
"At Warrington Academy (says Mr. Bright), were collected some of the 
noblest literati of their day. Here the free thought of the English Presby- 
terians first began to crystallize into the Unitarian theology which they have 
since maintained. Here, for a time, was the centre of the liberal politics and 
the literary taste of the entire county. . . . The Academy was founded in 
1757, and was closed in 17S0. It was visited by John Howard, W. Roscoe, 'J'. 
Pennant, Currie, the biographer of Burns, &c. The first Tutors appointed 
were Dr. John Taylor of Norwich, Tutor in Divinity, Mr. Holt of Kirkdale, 
Tutor in Natural Philosophy, Mr. Dyer of London, Tutor in Languages and 
Polite Literature, whose duties, however, were taken by Mr. (afterwards the 
Rev. Dr.) Aikin, father of the celebrated Physician and Mrs. Barbauld. Dr. 
Priestley succeeded Dr. Aikin." 

Dr. Priestley, who is addressed by Coleridge as " Patriot, and Saint, and 
Sage," was succeeded by John Reinhold Forster, p German Scholar and 
Naturalist, who accompanied Captain Cook in his second voyage. Dr. Enfield, 
author of The Speaker, and the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, were Tutors. Among 
the students were Mr. Sf.rjeant Heywood ; Archibald Hamilton Rowan, 
the Irish rebel ; the Rev. H. Malthus ; Lord Ennismore ; Sir James 
Carnegie of Southesk ; Mr. Henry Beaufoy, etc., all strong Whigs. The 
name of neither Mara nor Le Maitrr appears on the Minutes of the Academy. 

For the latest contribution to the history of Marat's sojourn in England we 
are indebted to the researches of Mr. H. Morse Stephens, of Balliol College, 
Oxford, who, in his elaborate and painstaking History of' the French Revolution 
(1886), which includes facts unknown to Carlyle and earlier historians, gives the 
following account of that "arch-destroyer"; but, as he calls him, "a much 
maligned individual " : — 

" Jean Paul Marat," says he, " was born at Boudry, near Neufchatel, in 
Switzerland, on April 13, 1742. His father, who spelt his name ' Mara,' was a 
physician of some ability, and on being exiled from his native island of Sardinia 
for abandoning the Roman Catholic religion, had taken up his residence in 
Switzerland, and married a Swiss Protestant. Jean Paul was the eldest of 



296 * POETRY OF 

three sons ; his next brother settled down as a watchmaker at Geneva, and his 
youngest brother entered the service of the Empress Catherine, and dis- 
tinguished liimself in tlie Russian array under the title of the Chevalier de 
Boudry. Jean Paul was from his childhood of an intensely sensitive and 
excitable disposition, and also so quick at his books that he became a good 
classical scholar, and acquainted with most modern languages. As his chief 
taste, however, seemed to be for natural science, he was intended to follow his 
father's profession, and was, at the age of eighteen, sent to study medicine at 
the University of Bordeaux. He there obtained a thorough knowledge of his 
profession, but devoted himself particularly to the sciences of optics and elec- 
tricity. From Bordeaux he went to Paris, where he effected a remarkable cure 
of a disease of the eyes, which had been abandoned as hopeless both by 
physicians and quacks, by means of electricity. Fi'om Paris he went to Amster- 
dam, and, finally, to London, where he set up in practice in Church Street, Sohu, 
then one of the most fashionable districts in London. He must soon have 
formed a good practice, for he stopped in London, with occasional visits to 
Dublin and Edinburgh, for ten years, and only left it to take up an appoint- 
ment at the French court. While in London he wrote his first book, and in 
1772 and 1773, he published the first two volumes of a philosophical and physio- 
logical Risay on Man. The point he discussed was the old problem of the rela- 
tion between body and mind, and he treated it in a very interesting manner 
from the physiological point of view. He held some extraordinary theory 
about the existence of some fluid in the veins which acted on the mind ; which, 
however, does not impair the interest of his inquiries into the cause of dreams, 
or diminish the respect felt for his wide reading and extensive knowledge both 
of ancient and modern philosophical and medical authors. He shows a wide 
knowledge of Latin and Greek literature, and while writing in good English 
freely quotes French, German, Italian, and Spanish writers. In one part of his 
book he declared that it was ridiculous for any one to make psychical researches 
without having some knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and openly at- 
tacked Helvetius for despising scientific knowledge in his famous Ve l' Esprit. 
Voltaire naturally took the side of Helvetius, and did the young author the 
honour of noticing, and very severely criticising, his book. Marat himself 
translated it into French, and published it at Amsterdam in 1775. His next 
work was of a political chiracter. He had got mixed up with some of the 
popular societies in England, whicli were striving to obtain a thorough reform 
of the representation of the people in the House of Commons, and, in 1774, 
published a work, which he entitled The Chains nf Slavery. In this book, which 
is partly historical and partly political, he begs the electors to take more care in 
tlie choice of their representatives. It is written in a very declamatory style, 
and strikes the note of the responsibility of representatives to their constituents, 
which is the keynote of all his political ideas. The liook is published in quarto, 
and is printed on fine paper, so that it can hardly have been meant to appeal to 
the populace, but it, nevertheless, procured him the honorary membership of 
the popular societies of Neiccast/e and other gi-eat northern cities. Subsequently 
ha again returned to his profession, and after publislung a medical tract in 
1775, of which no copy is known to exi.st, he published An Inquiry into the 
Nature, Cause, and Cure of a singular Disease of the Byes, in 1776. [See Academy of 
September 23, 18S2.] In this little pamphlet there is no violent language ; 
it describes the disease and the cases he had cured in perfectly simple language, 
and shows, at least, that he was no mere quack, but a scientific physician. On 
June 30, 1775, he had, while on a visit to Scotland, received the honorary degree 
of M.D. from the University of St. Andrews for his eminence as a doctor, and had 
probably received similar compliments from other Universities, because, on 
June 24, 1777, jEan Paul Marat, ' mt5decin de plusieurs facultes d'Angleterre,' 
was appointed, for his good character and high reputation as a doctor, physician 
to the body-guard of the Comte d'Artois, with a salary of a thousand livres a 
year and allowances. To take up this court appointment he moved to Paris, 
and soon acquired a large practice there, and the name of ' physician of the 
inoui'ables,' from the number of hopeless cases he was successful in treating. 
He also moved in the best society about the court, and won the affections of 
the Marquise de I'Aubespine for saving her life. For some reason or other, most 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 297 

grobably because he had obtained a competent fortune, and desired to satisfy 
is ambition, he resigned his court appointment in 1783, and devoted himself to 
science. He had long observed the phenomena of Heat, Light, and Electricity, 
and in the course of the next five years published the result of his experiments, 
and presented them to the Jctuhuu/ of Scicncfs. His hard work won him the 
friendship of Benjamin Franklin, but the violence with which he attacked his 
adversaries, and his audacity in doubting the conclusions of Newton, prevented 
him from obtaining a seat in the Academy of Sciences. AVhen he recognised 
that this liostility to liimself prevented due recognition of his work, he deter- 
mined to win the approbation of the Academy by concealing his name ; and his 
translation of the Optics of Newton, which was covered by the name of M. de 
Beauzk, and published in 1788, was at once crowned by the very Academy which 
had rejected him. 

" His political work during these years was confined to a treatise, in imitation 
oi Beccaria, on the subject of Punishments. The approach of the States- 
General, however, revived his political enthusiasm, and in the March of 1789, 
when he believed himself to be dying, he published his Offvande a la. Patrie, 
which was followed in quick succession by a supplement and other pamphlets. 
Of these, distinctly the most able is the Tahliaa dcs Vices de la Constitution 
Anc/laisc, which he presented to the Assembly in September, 1789. In it he 
points out wliat he had learnt in the popular societies of England, that the 
English people was by no means so well governed as it was supposed to be ; 
that the intiuence of the king and the ministry was overwhelming through the 
extent of patronage, and that tlie rich there bought seats in the House of Com- 
mons as they bought estates. 

" Marat then felt that he could not express himself frequently enough in 
pamphlets, and on September 12 appeared the first number of a iournal written 
entirely by himself, called the Journal da Peiip/e, which title wa.s changed to 
that of Aiaidu Pciip/e, or 2'he People's Friend, with the fourth number. 

"To understand the man, it is necessary to get rid of preconceived ideas. 
Suspicious and irritable, excitable and sensitive to an extreme, he attacked 
everybody, and attacked them all with unaccustomed violence ; but with all 
this, he was in private life a highly educated gentleman. The extent of his 
attainments appears from his numerous works, and it must be remembered that 
he could not for years have been a fashionable nhysician and held a court 
appointment without being perfectly polite and well-bred. His faults arose 
from his irritable and suspicious nature, and years of persecution made him 
half-insane towards the end of his life ; but in September, 1789, he was in perfect 
possession of his senses, and the very popularity of his journal showed how con- 
genial his gospel of suspicion was to the Paiisians."— [Ed.] 



Jean Paul Marat'.s Sister. 

The Right Hon. J. "W. Croker, in a letter to John 'Winter .Jones, dated 23rd 
October, 1854, says that Colin, who had been Marat's printer or publisher, 
"introduced hiin to Marat's sister, who was as like her brother, he said— 
and as from all pictures and busts I readily believed— as ' deti.v gouttes 
d'eau'. She was very small, very ugly, very sharp, and a great politician. 
Her ostensible livelihood was making watch-springs, but she told me she was 
pretty easy in her circumstances, and I either gathered from her, or saw cause 
to suspect, that she had some secret charitable help."- [Ed.] 



Lareveillere-Lepaux (page 283). 

LAREVElLLfeRE-LEPAUX left orders in his will that his Memoirs were to be 
printed and published. His heirs were not proud of the part the Director 
had played, so, after complying with the terms of his will and printinr/ the 
3I(inoir.% they deslroi/ed tlie u-hole issue at once ; and the only copy extant is the 
one which, in accordance with the law of France, was sent to the Bibliothkiue 
Rationale at Paris. 



298 POETRY OF 

THE THEOPHILANTHEOPISTS. 

These {Gr. "Lovers of Gofls and Men") weve a sect of 2ifi.s?.s which appeared 
in France ami<l the confusion and disorder of the first Revolution. While the 
State was indifferent to all forms of Religion, and the Republican Directory was 
afraid of the Christianity which prevailed in the Church, a felt consciousness 
of the necessity of some religion led many to adopt a form of worship adapted 
to Natural Religion.. 

" This Sect " (says SOUTHEY, in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxviii.) " began with 
more circumstances in their favour than ever occurred to facilitate the estab- 
lishment of a religion or of a sect. M;'ny persons of considerable influence and 
reputation engaged in the project with zeal, and it was patronised by La 
Rkveillere L^paux, one of the Directory. . . . His motives for putting him- 
self at the head of the Theophilanthropists are said to have been twofoM : if 
the scheme succeeded, he intended to become their High Priest ; and be hated 
Christianity. Through his means the Theophilanthropists obtained a decree 
from the Government giving them a right of holding their meetings in the 
Churches, as national buildings, which were open to any religion, but belonged 
to none. 

" Nearly twenty Churches in Paris were taken possession of ; but by occupy- 
ing so many, they injured themselves. . . . They took up too extended a iDositif)n, 
and had neither numbers nor means answerable to the scale upon which they 
set out. . . . Their Serrlre began at noon, and lasted about an hour and a half. 
It was, they said, a worship for those who had no other, and a moral society 
for those who had. The liituol consisted of Piayers, Hymns original or selected 
from the best French Poets, readings from their Manual, and Discourses. The 
Ili/nins were, in general, judicioiis, and set to good music, and the Prcn/ers well 
composed ; but had their books been stript of all that they had borrowed from 
the Gospel, and from the works of Christian writers, they would have been 
meagre indeed. In one part of the Service there was a short pause, during 
which the congregation were expected to consider each in silence what his own 
conduct had been since the last of these meetings. A basket of fruit or 
flowers, according to the season, was placed upon the altar, as a mark of ac- 
knowledgment for the bounties of the Creator ; and over the altar was the 
inscription, iVojis crot/nvn a Ce.ihtiiici de Dieu, et a /'iiiihwrtaUtc de Vdme. . . . La 
Reveii.lere, in a speech at the Institute, declaiming against Christianity, as 
being opposed to the liberty of mankind, expressed his wish that a form of 
religion were adopted, which should have oidy « couple of articles. He Avished 
also for a religion without priests ; and this, it was pleasantly observed, would 
be like a Directory without a Director. 

"This was the Creed of the Tluophilanthmpiitx. And on each side of it, the 
following sentences were inscribed in their temples, to take place of the 
Decalogue : — 

" ' Ad(U'e God, cherish your fellow-creatures ; render yourselves useful to your 

country. 
Good is whatever tends to ]ueserve man, or to perfectionate him. 
Evil is whatever tends to destroy him, or to deteriorate him. 
Children, honour your fathers and mothers; obey them with affection, solace 

their old age. Fathers and mothers, instruct your children. 
Wives, behold in your husbands the heads of your houses. Husbands, love 

your wives, and render yourselves mutually happy.' 

" At Marriacie the bride and bridegroom were to be coupled with ribands, or 
garlands of flowers, the ends of which were to be held on each side by the 
elders of their respective families. The Bride received a ring from her husband, 
and a medal of union from the head of the family. There was a rite also for 
infants. . . . When a member died, the other members of the Society were 
invited to place a flower upon the urn, and pray the Creator to receive the 
deceased into his bosom. The Decades and National Holidays were observed 
by these Anti-Christians, and they had four Holidays of their own. for Socrates, 
St. Vincent de Paule, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Washington,— oddly 



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THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 299 

assorted names ! Two of them, however, stand well together in this kalendar, 
for the one, who was a Christian, established the Foundling Hospital at Paris ; 
and the other, who was a sentimentalist, a philosopher, and a Theophilan- 
thropist, sent his^own children to it. . . . 

" La Reveillere nsed to take praise to himself for having, in his Direc- 
torial character, humbled the Pope and the great Turk. The Anti-Christian 
language of the Directory, and its persecution of the Clergy, are imputed to 
him ; so far his colleagues were willing to go with him ; but his zeal for 
Deism they regarded as ridiculous. ... In the way of pecuniary aid, he 
could obtain little : — beaucoup d'argent was what the Directory were ac- 
customed to demand, not to give. . . . 

" Their Service at Paris was numerously attended while it was a new 
spectacle, and the subject of conversation ; but more than two-thirds of the 
persons thus assembled were idlers. But this concourse soon abated ; tliere 
was nothing attractive in the ceremonies, nothing to impose upon the 
imagination or the senses. A propagandist reported from Montreuil that 
the readings and orations had been heard by an audience acide de morale, 
but he had observed with pain that the tuat^j-iel of the worship was not 
what it .should have been. ... It was got up at Bourges in better style ; 
the orator there officiated in a white sash ornamented with blue flowers, 
before an altar upon wliich an orange tree was placed : and at the fete des 
cpuiu:, the Theoiihilanthropists carried tn-o pif/eons in procession, as an 
emblem of conjugal tenderness, and placed them upon the altar of the country ! " 



[The literary association of L.\mb with Coleridge and Soiithey [says 
Sir T. N. Tai.fourd, in his life of Lamb,] drew upon him the hostility of the 
young scorners of The Anti-Jacobin, who, luxuriating in boyish joride and aristo- 
cratic patronage, tossed the arrows of their wit against all charged with inno- 
vation, whether in politics or poetry, and cared little whom they wounded. 
No one could be more innocent than Lamb of political heresy ; n«HM|^L more 
strongly opposed to new tlieories in morality — which he always regamWwith 
disgust. The very tirst number of The Auti-Jacohin. Review and Magazine [this 
was, however, a new work, by different hands, but imbued with the same spirit 
as The Anti-Jacohiii] was adorned by a caricature of Gillray S, in which COLE- 
RIDGE and SouTHEY were introduced with asses' heads, and Lloyd and Lamb 
as toad and frog. In the number of July, 1798 [of the original Anti-Jacobin] 
appeared the well-known poem of New Moratiti/, in which all the prominent 
objects of the hatred oi these champions of religion and order were introduced 
as offering hoUiage to Lepaux, a French charlatan, — of whose existence Lamb 
had never even heard. Not content with thus confounding persons of the most 
opposite opinions and the most various characters in one common libel, the 
party returned to the charge in their number for September [of The Anti-Jacobin 
Merieir], and denounced the young poets in a parody on tiie Ode to t/te Passions, 
under the title of T/ie Anarc/iiMs. They are reprinted in the present volume. — Ed.] 

[The cause of Coleridge, Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb, being thus satirized as 
persons of the same politics, was the conjoint publication of their works. In 
the spring of 1790, Coleridge published vol. i. of his Juvenile Poems, including 
three Sonnets by Lamb ; in May, 17ii7, there appeared a new edition, with many 
poems by Lloyd and Lamb. The Fall of Jiobisi>ierre, an historic drama, was 
published Sept. 2-2, 1794 : the first act written by COLERIDGE, the second and 
third by Southey. It is not difficult to understand why Coleridge was so 
severely attacked by the Goveinmeut writers. In 179.5, at the early age of 23, 
he delivered, at Bristol, some puljlic lectures, reflecting in warm terms on the 
measures of Pitt. Three of them were published at Bristol at the end of 1795 
— the first two together, with the title of Condones ad Populum; the third as 
The Plot Discovered. The eloquent pas.sage in conclusion of the first of these 
addresses was written by Southey. That he was considered by ministers a 
dangerous character is proved by his having been for some months watched by 
a Government spy while residing at Stowey, providing for his scanty mainten- 
ance by writing verses for The Morning Post. It was his fortune also to excite 



300 POETEY OF 

the ire of Buonapakte, by his anti-gallican writings in the same paper ; and a 
benevolent intimation of his danger by Baron von Humboldt and Cardinal 
Fesch alone prevented his being arrested while in Italy. (See p. 284.) 

SOUTHEV thus alludes to the attack upon him (by Gillray, in his famous 
caricature), in a letter addressed to C. W. W. WyNi\, dated Hereford, August 
15, 179s : — "I have seen myself Bcdfordizcd, and it has been a subject of much 
amusement. Holcroft's likeness is admirably preserved. I know not what 
poor Lamb has done to be croaking there. What I think the worst part of The 
Anti-Jacobin abns& is the lumping together men of such opposite principles; 
this was stupid. We should have all been welcoming the Director, not the Theo- 
philanthrope. The conductors of The Anti-Jacobin will have much to answer for 
in thus inflaming the animosities of this country. They are labouring to pro- 
duce the deadly hatred of Irish faction; perhaps to produce the same end. 
Such an address as you mention might probably be of great use ; that I could 
assist you in it is less certain. I do not feel myself at all calculated for anything 
that requires methodical reasoning ; and though you and I should agree in the 
main object of the pamphlet, our opinions are at root different. The old systems 
of government, I think, must fall ; but in this country the immediate danger is 
on the other hand,— from an unconstitutional and unlimited power. Burleigh 
saw how a Parliament might be employed against the people, and Montesquieu 
prophesied the fall of English liberty when the Legislature should become cor- 
rupt. You will not agree with me in thinking his prophecy fulfilled. Violent 
men there undoubtedly are among the democrats, as they are always called ; 
but is there any one among them whom the ministerialists will allow to be 
moderate 1 The Anti-JacotAn certainly speaks the sentiments of Government.' 
-Ed.] 



Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southev (page 284). 

["The passionate verdicts given, both 'f'" <T^nd con, in reference to Words- 
worth, Coleridge, and Southev, may now be looked back upon with some 
wonder, but all three had made themselves obnoxious to the charge of rene- 
gadi.sm. Wordsworth had accepted the office of stamp-distributor from Lord 
Lonsdale; Southey, after attempting to suppress his demagogical drama of 
^^'at Tiller, became a violent Tory, bringing a hot partisanship into the ranks to 
which he fled ; and Coleridge, a Tom-Paineite in politics and a preaching 
Unitarian, ended bv adopting all the doctrines of orthodoxy."— .Sir Jo/i/i Boicring. 
—ED.] 



Edmund Burke (page 286). 

"Adair told me a great many things about Burke, and Fox, and Fitzpat- 
rick, and all the eminent men of that time with whom he lived when he was 
young. He said . . . that Fitzpatrick was the most agreeable of them 
all, but Hare the most brilliant. Burke's conversation was delightful, so 
luminous and instructive. He was very passionate ; and Adair said that the 
first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him some question about the wild 
parts of Ireland, when Burke broke out: 'You are a fool and a blockhead. 
There are no wild parts in Ireland.' . . . There was an attempt to bring 
about a reconciliation between him and Fox, and a meeting for that purpose 
took place of a!\ the leading men, at Burlington House. Burke was on the 
point of yielding when his son suddenl}' made his appearance unbidden, and, 
(in being told what was going on, he said : ' My father shall be no party to such 
a compromise,' took Burke" aside, and persuaded him to reject the overtures. 
That son Adair described as the most disagreeable, violent, and wrong-headed 
of men, but the idol of bis father, who used to say that he united all his own 
talents and acquirements with those of Fo.x and everybody else, &c."— See The 
GrcvUle Memoirs, i. 136-7.— [ED.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 301 

PA{vp''.nHHl!}"^Ty®'"''^''''D''?^ passage occurs in a pamphlet written by Tom 
/r,t ^ p! / / / i •""'•"^' Panic to the People of Ennland, on the Invauon of En-j- 
land: PhiUuklphu, printed at the Tctple of Reason Press, Arek Street 1S04 

1 he original plan formed in the time of the Directory (but now much more 
extensive) was to build one thousand boats, each sixty feet long, sxteen feet 
h'toe head'nn f^f,"', V' • ^"'^ ^f "\'° '^''\^ twenty-fo^ur or thirty-siTpounder 
fvaun,!^ iK^^ t t'^'^'''? '" "''' ^^V- ^o ^'"^ ™" °»t ^« s^^o" as they touched 
d wi H.nn T^ '"'fJ''' carry a hundred men, making in the whole one 
hundred thousand, and to row with twenty or twenty-five oars on a side 
and n^el'wlf f?.P''"'*''^ *'' ^^-'^ ^""""a"/'- and by an agTeement between hm 
the\^^onl nf fI'^S''''.'"'''''"^ '"'r- a? the intention of the expedition was to give 
and^thPvihv hvini^ V^ T 0PP0';t""'ty of fo""ing a government for themselves, 
ana tueieby bring about peace. — Ed.] 



THE COURIER. 

_ The Courier, in the time of the war, was the great paper; it obtained a laro-e 

bnoH^'liA^RRV^ifiX'^"''^^^ 

Dy JOH.N PARRi in 1792 and he carried it on for some years with tolerable 

ETne'i^i'^of Rns^,^'"'{rw^" P'' '/?f government prosecution foralibel oTthe 
^mpeioi of Russia. It was bought by D.4N'iel .Stuart, who left The Mornina 
PostioY The Courier in 1803. During three years, says he, at the time of the 
overthrow of Buo.naparte, The Courier, by tile able maiiao^ment of Pftfr 
STREET, who was editor and half-propdetoi- sold steld?^^"^f,3 of 8000 per 

ST' Cm'^,f,^f/n•■''/'^/'^^^■n'^'^■;'''^^■''^"l« °f ^^-'^OO ^1^"^ ^^ the end of 18^09^ 
S. r. Coleridge contributed to it some Essays on the Spaniards ; and in 18U 

HfrpnHnn ^V^ °" ^1 '^l^'J" ^* ""'^ '""<^ ^^' Paper was much under mnsterial 
Mnni o^n w ? f "" /°"* *w ^^^^ ^^^.^ "" ^^"^ ^'"' ^''"'■'«- ^^as conducted by W 
STF^ HT V^.'ni "' •'''r™ ,^^.ILLIAM STEWART was a proprietor. After 1819 D 
AftLwi no interest in it, and parted with his last share in it in 1822 

^elnPcHbil^fv ' /i^-^' "^-"'J^* f ™r'^.' ^ S'=°"='^ gentleman of great tale, t and 
fn??w In^r""^'r that unfortunately killed Sir AlexIxder Boswell 
in a cluel,_and was author of Travels hi the United States-hecAmQ editor True 

Wh^!fn?'Tfh'?li'' ^'1 ^""'^ '" ""' "^^^P^^'y ''""'y «"PPO'-t i" his power" to the 
Whig or Liberal party. He was appointed by Lord Melbourne to the situi! 
tion of Factory Inspector, which he held till his death, at the age of 74 in 1849 
\A hen JA.S STUART obtained his factory appointment, Sam. Lam vx Blanchard 
&,°^t.?'^'*°f- J'itP^P'^'' ^^^'"*? become, like other evening papers^ less pro 
fatable than of o d, the proprietors sold it to the party they had Lo Ion- opposed 
It took Tory politics ; Laman Blanch ard, of course; resigned ; and a few short 
years were sufhcent to destroy a journal which had once been the mott vlluab e 
newspaper property in England. Its last number appeared Ctli July 184-' 
It i.s a curious, but not creditable, circumstance that The 6W»jvv was ik the 

hrc^ttfclls''fr±"f7. 'r/^^'/*"..^'"''''' ^""'?.T* acknowledgment, the able lea U 
ing aicicies tioni Ih.e Lirerponl Courier, written bv the Rev Richard Waf^,^, 

his'f rien^ \u\ZftI^'' Missionary Society, b/ who„rin ^onSction" wul 
tional prii'idple?^ ■ "^^^'^Paper was established upon loyal and constitu- 

rrnkPv wHi'/iniii" ^f ^' '^K ' «"PP"«.'l ''y R- Peel, Lord Palmerston, and J. W. 
Crokei, with political squibs and lyrics, resemliling in general features The inff 
Mm and The Rolliad. The verses are chiefTy parod es of Zore'^/ • A 
Melodies, or of Byron's songs, and are far above the ordinary level of such com 

FhpVu^;/ ',•.;• ^'^''y^r.''"«Pr,!«^^«'-e collected and published in 18 5 under 
the title of The New Whvj Guide."— Croker Papers, vol i p r,s 
iv,-nC s.tatement contains several inaccuracies. The' pieces forming The New- 
^yZ^'Tpn7.T ^''■f/ '^^"^^ted and published in 1819. and not inm5,i^ 
f?M , T^ r * 'f .""'/ ^^^^ "°* written till April, 1816. The parody on it was 
entitled Th^ Leader's Uinent Bi, the Right Hon. George Ponsonh,,. A. Haywanl 
^lll Jr '»?.3;«^i«^^ of ™;' P<^'-f^-y of the Anti-JaeobiH, in The EdinlmnjhSu, 
1858-that Canning has been traditionally credited with the parody of Moore's 



302 POETEY OP 

Believe me, if all those eiuharing young charms, the gentleman addiessecl being a 
distinguished commoner afterwards ennobled (the tirst Lord Methuen), who 
was far from meriting the character [of a foolish fop] thereby fastened on him ". 
The other parodies were by John Calcraft, the Hon. AV. H. Lyttelton, 
Dudley North, M.P., Kirkman Finlay, M.P. for Glasgow, &c. Mr, 
Methuen, in I'eturn, wrote many clever squibs and parodies against the 
Tories, which were collected, under the title of The Neio Tory Guide, and repro- 
duced, like its rivals in ISlt). "Talking of The Morning Chronicle," says T. 
]M00RE {Diary, l^tKMareh, 1831), " PAUL METHUEN told US he was the author 
of almost all those about 'The Mat CtuO ; which are certainly some of the best." 

THE STAR. 

The Star, the first London daily Evening Newspaper, was started in 1788 by 
Peter Stuaet, brother to Daniel Stuart, of The Morning Post. Its first 
editor was Andrew Macdonald, author of yimonda, a tragedy, and other 
works : and after him another Scottish poet, John Mayne, author of The Siller 
Gun, was editor. ROBERT B.URNS was offered an engagement to write poetry 
for it, at the rate of one guinea an article per week. The arrangement was not 
completed. It was to Peter Stuart that Burns addressed his " Poem, 
written to a gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue it 
free of expense". The facetious Bob Allen, of whom Charles Lamb has such 
pleasant reminiscences, was for many years a contributor to this paper. Sub- 
sequently, Dr. a. Tilloch, editor of The Philosophical Magazine, was for many 
years editor of Tlic Star. After Oct. 15, 1831, The Star became incorporated 
with The Albion newspaper, under the title of The Albion and Evening Star. 

The Star was during many years the leading newspaper on the Whig side, 
Campbell the poet being one of its writers after 1804, when he was engaged at 
a salary of four guineas a week. The clear profits of this paper in 1820 were 
said, on apparently good authority, to amount to £6000. 

THE INIORNING CHRONICLE. 

The Morning Chronicle was, with one exception {The Public Ledejer, which 
started in 1760), the oldest of the daily papers up to the period of its discon- 
tinuance March 19, 1862. The latest number in the British Museum is dated 
Dec. 31, 1861. 

It was established on Whig principles, 28th June, 1769, by William Wood- 
fall, who carried it on with great success till 1789. 

Woodfall, in addition to other talents requisite to the success of a newspaper, 
possessed two, which were of essential service to it, namely, his prodigious 
memory, which enabled him to report Parliamentary Debates without the aid 
of notes, and the excellence of liis Theatrical Criticisms, which, as Mr. Fox 
Bourne, in his copious and valuable work on English Neuspapers, 2 vols., Svo., 1SS7 
^one to which the editor of the present publication has been under frequent 
obligations— says, " are a neglected mine of wealth for students of Theatrical 
History ". 

On Woodfall'.s death, in 1803, it was sold to James Perry, who borrowed 
£500 from Ransome & Co., the bankers, and some more from Bellamy, the 
wine merchant — who was also caterer and doorkeeper to the House of Com- 
mons— and entered into partnership with a Charterhouse schoolmaster named 
Gray', who had just received a legacy of £500. With that joint capital, the two 
bought The Chronicle, the DUKE OF NORFOLK making PERRY a present of a 
house in tlie Strand, which he converted into a new publishing office. A few 
other influential Whigs, ;dso, contributed a further sum, which, as the late SIR 
Robert Adair, who is so often satirized in 7'he Anti-Jacobin, and who was a 
subscriber to the fund, informed the editor of the present work, was £300. 

Perry' was on good terms with his contributors, and made The Morning 
Chronicle a, more prosperous and influential journal than had ever liefore been 
known in England. Gray' provided the heavy articles, PERRY' those of lighter 
sort ; and after Gray's death, which happened when he had been part proprietor 
ior only a few years, other writers were employed, among them Jas. Mackin- 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 303 

TOSH and Sheridan, and in later times T. Campbell and T. Moore, who con- 
tributed verse, anil John Campbell, then a young Ijarrister, who was the 
Theatrical Critic, and was still so in 1810. T. Campbell, on coming to London 
in 1802, was engaged as a political writer, but this not being his forte, he, with 
great judgment, confined himself to poetical pieces, among which were Ye 
3Ianiiers of Emiland, and The Exile of Erin. pEiiiiY had another and equally 
famous contributor. In Sept., 1793, S. T. Coleridge, then aged nineteen, " sent 
a poem of a few lines to Perry, soliciting a loan of a guinea for a distressed 
author," which prayer was immediately granted. In 1796, he accepted an oflter 
of Perry's to write in it, but the arrangement was never carried out. In later 
years, Coleridge wrote some other poems for The iluniiag Chronicle, and his 
friend Charles Lamb was an occasional writer of prose for it. 

Perry continued as the general manager of the paper till his death on 6th 
Dec, 1S21 ; but before this he had left much of the editing to others, his first as- 
sistant after Gray's death being Robert Spankie, ultimately attorney-general 
of Bengal. The next was John Black, who had joined him in 1810 ; and upon 
him, when Perry died, the entire management devijlved. 

After Perry's death the paper was purchased for £42,000, by William 
Clement, by whom it was held till 1834, when it was sold to Sir John East- 
hope for £16,.fl00. 

In 1843, John Black was dismissed to make way for Andrew Doyle, who 
had been Foreign Editor, and had married Sir John's daughter. Black died in 
1855. 

On 26th July, 1847, Sir John Eastiiope, who had been carrying on the paper 
at a loss for some time, sold it to the Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone, 
Sidney Herbert, and other influential Peelites. Its new Editor was Joh.n 
Douglas Cook, who had for some time been one of the reporters of 'The Ti-.neg, 
and who gathered round him a brilliant staff of contributors, including George 
Sydney Smythe, afterwards Lord Strangford, Gilbert Venables, Abraliam Hay- 
ward, William Vernon Harcourt, and 'i'hackeray. Its business manager was 
William Delane, the father of the clever young editor of The Times, John 
Thaddeus Delane. 

The Chronicle lingered on as a would-be Peelite organ till the autumn of 1804, 
when by a curious arrangement, the paper, with all its plant, was sold to Serjeant 
CfLOVER, for £7500, on the understanding that, if he continued to support in it 
the Peelite policy, he should have the money back with interest, being paid 
£3000 a year for three years. That contract soon fell through, as Glover 
preferred to draw a subsidy from Louis Napoleon, and to make other experi- 
ments. At the close of 1854, the circulation of The Morning Chronicle averaged 
only about 2500, while that of 2Vte Morning Post was about 3000, that of The 
Morning Herald about 3500, that of The Daibj News about 5300, that of The 
Morning Adcertiser about 6600, and that of The Times about 55,000. 

The last number of The Morning Chronicle appeared March 19, 1S62, when 
what at one time had been the most influential journal in the country altogether 
ceased to exist 

Of this paper Sheridan speaks in The Critic, and to it Byron addressed a 
Fariiiliar Epistle. For its columns W. Hazlitt wrote some of the finest criti- 
cisms in our own or any other language. Some of the early Skttchis by BvZ 
appeared in it, but they were really commenced in the old Monthly Magazine, 
Dickens's father was one of the staff. Hazlitt also contributed to it Parlia- 
mentary Reports, as at a later period did C. Dickens. 

Among other distinguished writers in The Morning Chronicle were Lord 
Brougham, the Duke of Sussex, David Ricardo, Cyrus Redding, Albany Fon- 
blanque, James and John Stuart Mill, John Payne Collier, Eyre Evans Crowe, 
Charles Duller, Lord Holland, Joseph Parkes, Michaf'l -Joseph Quin, George 
Hogai'th, James Eraser, W. Hazlitt, secundus, Lord Melbourne, W. Johnson 
Fox. Henry Mayhew, Lord Palmerston, A. B. Reach, Alex, and Charles Mackay, 
Tom Taylor. 

THE MORNING POST. 

The Morning Post, the next duibj paper in order of date to The Chronicle, 
first appeared in 1772, and was probably projected by John Bell. Three years 



304 POETKY OF 

subsequently the Rev. Henry Bate (who took in 1784 the name of Dudley, and 
was created a baronet in 1815) joined it, and was connected with it till the end 
of 1780, when he quarrelled with his colleagues, and set up The Morning Herald^ 
tlie first number of which appeared on Nov. 1 in the same year. In June, 1781, 
he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for an atrocious libel on the Duke of 
Ilichmond. He was (says Horace Walpole, in his Journal of the Reign of George 
IIL), the worst of all the scandalous libellers that had appeared, both on private 
persons as well as ^niblic. His life was dissolute, and he had fought more than 
one duel. Yet Lord- Sandwich had procured for him a good Crown living, and 
he was believed to be pensioned by the Court. He died in 1824. 

After Bate, as editor, came the Rev. W. Jackman (or Jackson)— an equally 
discreditable clergyman,— and he was succeeded by John Taylor (author of 
Monsieur Tomon), for whom PETER PiNDAR (Du. JOHN WOLCOT) wrote whim- 
sical verses. 

In 1792, Mr. Tattersall was the responsible proprietor, who, knowing more 
about horses and sport than about the elegancies of literature. Dr. Wolcot 
continued to be the chief writer ; and who, besides his clever verses, gave much 
information upon affairs of the prize-ring and kindred amusements. In 1795, 
Tattersall sold the entire copyright, with house and printing materials, for 
£600. The circulation then was only 350 daily. 

The purchaser was Mr. Daniel Stuart ; and MR. Christie, the auctioneer, 
was also a proprietor. Previous to this time, Robert Burns was applied to, to- 
supply poetry, but none was ever sent. Daniel Stuart was not twenty-nine 
when he bought The Morning Post; and James (afterwards SiR JaS.) MACKIN- 
TOSH, who was his brother-in-law, and was a regular contributor, was his senior 
only by a year. 

After 1790, the same A.ndrew Macdonald, who had been editor of The Steer, 
furnished poems, as did Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lloyd, and other verse 
writers. At the commencement of 1798, S. T. COLERIDGE— then only twenty- 
five— was engaged to contribute poetry. The Odes, Fire, Feunine, and Slaughter ; 
France ; Dejection; and that on The Departing Year ; with twenty or thirty other 
pieces, since included in his Poetical Works, among which was Love — one of the 
most popular poems of this age— were first published in The Moriiiny Post. To 
these must be added the first draught of Tlie De cil's Thoughts, a piece afterwards 
much altered. About 1800, the paper was supplied with some excellent pieces, 
in prose, including Fashionable Intelligence, short pungent articles, and jokes, 
by Charles Lamb. 

In 1798 its sale was over 2000 ; and so well had Daniel Stuart managed his 
property — being exceedingly well served by his principal assistant, George. 
Lane — that when he left 'J'he Morning Post for The Courier, in 1803, the circula- 
tion amounted to 4,500. It, therefore, stood higher in point of sale than any 
other morning paper, the f)rder in respect of numbers from high to low being 
this: Morniwj I'vst, Morning Heredd, Morning Advertiser, Times. The amount 
received for it was about £25,000. According to John Taylor, editor of The 
Sun, in his Jiecords of my Life, The Morning Post was afterwards purchased by 
Government to silence attacks on the Prince Regent. 

Much of the success of The Morning Post was undoubtedly owing to the 
writings of COLERIDGE. He afterwards declared that he had wasted the prime 
and manhood of his intellect in writing for The Morning Post and Courier. 
Among his contributions to the former (March 19, 1800) was his famous 
character of William Pitt. The last time he wrote in it was in August, 1802. 

A very competent judge, Thomas De Quincey, thus alludes to Coleridge's 
political writings : — " Worlds of fine thinking," he says of the daily press, "lie 
buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed, or restored to human 
admiration. Like the sea, it has swallowed treasures without end, that no 
diving-bell will bring up again. But nowhere throughout its shoreless maga- 
zines of wealth does there lie such a bed of pearls, confounded with the rubbish 
and ' purgamenta' of ages, as in the political papers of Coleridge. No more 
appreciable monument could be raised to the memory of Coleridge, than a 
re-publication of his Essays in The Morning Post, but still more of those after- 
wards published in The Courier." These have since been reprinted under the- 
title of Essays on his oioii Times. 



APPENDIX. 



THE ANAECHISTS.— An Ode. 

[A Parody on Collins's Ode to the Passions.] 

— Numero plures, virtute et honore minores, 
Indocti stolidique et depugnare parati. — Hor. 

'When Anarchy, sworn foe to Kings, 
O'er Gallia wav'd her crimson wings, 
Ere yet she spoil'd with iron hand 
Fair Europe's desolated land ; 
Her offspring here, a spurious brood, 
In faction nurs'd, inur'd to blood, 
Elate with Hope, perplex'd with Fear, 
Would often raise the listening ear ; 
And all their mother's wonders tell. 
And throng around her secret cell, 
Ranting, bribing, whispering, trembling. 
Urging, boasting, and dissembling. 
By turns they felt the Gallic mind 
Enlarg'd, unprejudic'd, refin'd ; 
Till once, by all the goddess iir'd. 
Beyond Discretion rapt, inspir'd ; 
>"'.editious, false, and prone to ill. 
They eager suateh'd the grey-goose quill. 
And as they oft had heard apart 
The wonders of Sedition's art. 
Each, for Madness rul'd the hour, 
Would prove his own subversive power. 

First Paine his Rights of Man display'd, 

But could no more — for falsely cross'd 
Ev'n by the friends himself had made. 

Enraged he fled to Gallia'.s coast. 
Next Priestley tried, to whom 'twas given 

Mankind's free-agency to tell ; 
Ordain'd to point the road to heaven. 

In pure free will he points — to hell ! 
With meagre visage Thelwall came, 

In lectures told his sufferings sore ; 
Till purple tyrants blush'd with shame 

And crowds the suffering saint adore. 
But thou, O Godwin ! meek and mild ; 
Speak thy metaphysic page : 
Now it cheer'd a laggard age, 

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And bade new scenes of joy at distance hail ; 

When tyrant Kings shall lie no more, 
When human wants and wars shall fail, 

And sleep and death shall quit the hallow'd shore. 
'Twas thus he strove to sap the throne. 
With borrow'd arts and weapons not his own, 
AVhile Gallia clapp'd her hands, and hail'd her favourite child. 

And longer had he sung— but, strange to say, 

Wakefield, the dragon-fly, rush'd on ; 
Eager he sought the bold rebellious fray, 
And burst with anger and disdain 
The web of sophistry in twain 
Which Godwin, patient sage ! had spread 
To catch the fluttering insects of the land. 
Treason upreared her arm to strike, 
Rebellion grasped the murd'rous pike, 
And though, sometimes, each maddening pause between, 
Soft Discretion, joined with Fear, 
AVhisper'd her councils in his ear. 
Still Anarchy upheld the busy scene. 
And raised her shield of brass to guard her vot'ry's head. 

Next HOLCROFT vowed in doleful tone 

No more to fire a thankless age. 
Oblivion marked his labours for her own. 

Neglected from the press and damn'd upon the stage. 
See ! faithful to their mighty dam, 
Coleridge, Southey, Lloyd, and Lamb, 
In splay-foot madrigals of love. 
Soft moaning like the widowed dove, 
Pour side by side their sympathetic notes. 
Of equal rights and civic feasts 
And tyrant Kings and knavish Priests 
Swift through the land the tuneful mischief floats. 
And now to softer strains they struck the lyi'e. 
They sung the beetle, or the mole, 
The dying kid, or ass's foal. 
By cruel man permitted to expire. 
But O, how altered was the sprightlier hour ! 
When Fox, the Parthian hero, rose to view ; 

He o'er the rest high-towering like a steeple 
Leagued with a "Corresponding" crew. 
Pledged in large floods of wine "their Majesties— the People". 

The royal tribe accept the proffered power. 

Kings from the forge, dictators from the plough, 
Peeping from fortli their allies low, 

Before the fallen arch-seceder ))ow ; 
Lepaux bade Gallia hail his name. 
But old St. Stephen bowed his head for shame. 

See Norfolk last, with Bedford roll. 

He of Bacchus' favours proud, 
The sovereign mob most eloquent addressed ; 
But soon he spied the mirth-inspiring bowl. 
Whose ruby treasures charmed his soul the best ; 
They would have thought who heard him speak, 

'Twas Falstaff , with his minions at his back, 
High primed with valour, turbulence, and sack, 
Aping the monarch to a wondr'ing crowd. 



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While Bedford proud his lesson to rehearse, 

With studious labours urged the bold reply : 
Shouts of applause ran rattling through theskv • 
And he, the hero of the day, 

cu 1 •^'■'?li* K'^tl their servile suffrage to repay, 

bhook golden bounty from his swelling purse. 

O, England ! heav'n-defended land ' 
With power to "threaten and command," 
Say, is thy former spirit broke, 
To crouch beneath a foreign yoke, 
And listen to the idiot strains 
Of slaves thy better sense disdains, 
As erst, in many an ardent hour. 
You awed an adverse haughty power. 
Thy lofty mind, to Freedom true. 
May well retain what then it knew. 
Where is thy former patriot soul, 
Above deceit, above contvoul? 
Arise ! as in that happier time 
United, fearless, bold, sublime. 
'Tis said, and 1 believe the tale, 
Thy efforts then could more avail. 
Could more true happiness dispense. 
With Order, Morals, Virtue, Sense, 
Than all that fires with party rage 
This boastful philosophic age. 
Arise ! with manly zeal advance. 
To curb the lawless power of France ; 
O, bid her mad endeavours cease, 
And give the willing nations PEACE ! 

— Fttbricius. 




THE PASSIONS. 

An Ode for Music. 
William Collins. 

When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 
While yet in early Greece she sung, 
The Passions oft, to hear her sliell, 
Throng'd around her magic cell. 
Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, 
Possess'd beyond the Muse's painting ; 
By turns they felt the glowing mind, 
Disturb'd, delighted, rais'cl, relin'd, 
Till once, 'tis said, when all were flr'd, 
Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspir'd, 
From the supporting myrtles round 
They snatcli'd her instruments of sound, 
And, as they oft had heard apart 
Sweet lessons of her forceful art, 
Each, for Madness ruled the liuur. 
Would prove his own expressive power. 

First Fear, his hand, its skill to try. 

Amid the chords bewilder'd laid. 
And back recoil'd, he knew not why, 

Even at the sound himself had made. 

Next Anger rush'd his eyes on fire, 
In lightnings own'd his secret stings. 

In one rude clash he struck the lyre, 
And swept with hurried hand the strings. 

With woful measures wan Despair 
Low sullen sounds his grief beguil'd, 

A sullen, strange, and mingled air, 
'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. 

But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, 

What was thy delightetl measure ? 

Stiil it whisper'd promis'd pleasure, 
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! 

Still would her touch the strain prolong. 
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, 
She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; 

And where her sweetest theme she chose, 

A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, 
And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair. 



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And longer had she sung,— but, with a frown, 

Revenge impatient rose, 
He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down, 
And, with a withering look, 
The war-denouncing trumpet took. 
And blew a blast so loud and dread, 
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. 
And ever and anon he beat 
The doubling drum with furious heat ; 
And though sometimes, each dreary pause between. 
Dejected Pity at his side 
Her sonl-subduing voice applied ; 
Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien. 
While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head, 



Thy numbers. Jealousy, to nought were flx'd, 

Sad proof of thy distressful state ! 
Of differing themes the veering song was mix'd. 
And now it courted Love, now raving call'd on Hate. 
With eyes upraised, as one inspir'd, 
Pale Melancholy sat retir'd. 
And from her wild sequester'd seat, 
In notes by distance made more sweet, 
Ponr'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul : 
And dashing soft from rocks around. 
Bubbling runnels join'd the sound ; 
Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, 
Or o'er some haunted streams with ifond delay, 
Round a holy calm diffusing, 
Love of peace and lonely musing, 
In hollow murmurs died away. 



But oh ! how alter'd was its sprightlier tone ! 
When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, 

Her bow across her shoulders flung. 
Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew. 
Blew an inspiring air that dale and thicket rung. 

The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known ; 
The oak-crown'd Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, 
Satyrs and Sylvan boys were seen, 
Peeping from forth their alleys green ; 
Brown Exercise rejoic'd to hear, 
And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear. 



Last came Joy's ecstatic trial ; 

He with viny crown advancing. 
First to the lively pipe his hand address'd ; 
But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol. 
Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov'd the best. 
They would have thought who heard the strain, 
They saw in Tempe's vale her native maids, 
Amidst the festal sounding shades, 
To some unwearied minstrel dancing : 
While, as his Hying fingers kiss'd the strings. 
Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round, 
Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound: 
And he, amidst his frolic play. 
As if he would the charming air repay, 
Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. 



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O Music ! sphere-descended maid, 
Fiiend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid, 
Why, goddess, why to lis denied, 
Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside ? 
As in that lov'd Athenian bower, 
You learn'd an all-commanding power, 
Thy mimic soul, O nymph endear'd. 
Can well recall what then it heard. 
'■ AVhere is thy native simple heart. 
Devote to virtue, fancy, art ? 
Arise, as in that elder time, 
Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime ! 
Thy wonders, in that god-like age, 
Fill thy recording Sister's page. 
'Tis said, and I believe the tale, 
Thy humblest reed could more prevail. 
Had more of strength, diviner rage, 
Than all which charms this laggard age 
E'en all at once together found 
Cecilia's mingled world of sound. 
O bid our vain endeavours cease. 
Revive the just designs of Greece ; 
Return in all thy simple state ! 
Confirm the tales her sons relate. 




THE ANTI-JACOBIN EEVIEW AND MAGAZINE 

FOR JULY, 1798. 

MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PR^VALEBIT. 

Art. 1. The Republican Judge, or the American Liberty of the Press, as exhibited, 
explained, and exposed, in the base and 2^artial Prosecution of William Cobbett, 
for a i)retended Libel against the King of Spain and his Embassador, before the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. With an AdAress to the People of England. 
By Peter Porcupine. 8vo.,pp.QQ. Price 2s. Wright, London. 

f\^he past writings of Mr. William Cobbett, who has assumed the appellation 
X of Peter Porcupine, are too well known in England to require any 
explanation from us, either of their tendency, or of the author's principles. 
Were any doubt entertained on the subject, nothing more would be requisite to 
dispel it than a mere reference to the comments of all the Jacobin Reviewers, 
who have, without exception, in defiance alike of decency and of truth, lavished 
on them the most indiscriminate censure and the most scurrilous abuse. 
Strange as it may appear, it is indisputably true that the individual exertions 
of Mr. Cobbett have more essentially contributed to give a proper tone to the 
public spirit in America than all the efforts of the well-disposed part of the 
native Americans : for a considerable length of time he combated alone a host 
of foes, "himself a host"; stemmed the impetuous tide of democracy; and 
checked the irruptions of French anarchy and atheism, which threatened to 
overwhelm the American States, and, with the ruins of their confiiction, to 
crush everything for which the Americans, at the period of their revolution, 
professed to fight, and which they have ever since professed to cherish. The 
adoption of such a line of conduct was alone sufficient to draw down upon our 
author the vengeance of all whose treasonable designs his manly efforts were 
intended to defeat. Accordingly, nothing was spared by the infuriated advo- 
cates of anarchy to injure him in the public mind, and, by blasting his reputa- 
tion, to deprive him of that credit which was indispensably necessary to secure 
the success of his works. No imputation however base, no lie however 
atrocious, none of those black and diabolical arts, in short, which, issuing from 
the bubbling cauldron of democracy, were so skilfully employed to blacken the 
first and fairest character in France, as a necessary prelude to the establish- 
ment of the virtuous republic of the Great Nation, were neglected in the 
gloriou.i attempt to achieve the ruin of this worthy individual. When these 
were found to fail of producing the desired effect, recourse was had to personal 
threats — the coward's weapon — with the hope of inducing him, by the means of 
intimidation, to quit a counti'y in which his enemies endeavoured to convince 
him that his life was daily exposed to most imminent danger. But neither 
the dread of calumny, nor the fear of assassination, could lead the object of 
their persecution to forego his laudable design. He manfully persevered, and 
has at length, though not without infinite difficulty, succeeded in opening the 
eyes of the Americans to their own interest, and in the infamous machinations 
of France, and of American traitors in the pay of France — for England is not the 
ONLY country in which foreign gold is employed as a stimulus to domestic 
treason.* In the course of his exertions to produce this desirable end, honest 



* "It is notorious that the French Director^/ have neios]}apers in their pay, not 
only in America, but in cveri/ country in Europe. That there should exist such 



312 POETKY OF 

Peter had occasion to comment on the pusillanimous conduct of the Spanish 
monarch, in bending the knee to, and forming an alliance with, the base 
plunderers and assassins of his family, and on the insidious and criminal efforts 
of the Spanish ambassador to strengthen the hands of the French faction in 
America. These comments, it seems, excited the indignation of Don Carlos 
>Iartinez de Trojo, who determined to bring the author to condign punishment ; 
and it was the very unwarrantable conduct which the latter experienced on the 
occasion that gave rise to the publication before us. 

Peter begins -his tract by stating the dangers to which he knew himself 
exposed, on account of his political principles, when he established his 
residence in the state of Pennsylvania, "where the government, generally 
speaking, was in the hands of those who had (and sometimes with great 
indecency) manifested an uniform partiality for the sans-culotte French, and as 
uniform an opposition to the ministers and measures of the federal government ". 
That men should ever be placed in situations of trust and importance, whose 
principles are avowedly adverse to the constitution whence they derive their 
subsistence, and which it is their bounden duty to protect, is a circumstance 
that would excite universal astonishment if it did not, unhappily, so often 
occur. Still the frequency of its occurrence does not alter its nature, nor 
should it be allowed to diminish that ample portion of censure which must ever 
attach to the authors of such appointments. It is such conduct as this that 
justifies one of the wisest observations that ever fell from the pen of Voltaire — 
"a government can only perish by suicide"— an observation confirmed 
by the fate of every country that has been recently reduced beneath the iron 
yoke of republican France. 

Aware of his danger, our author thought the best means of averting it was, 
by seeking for some standard, as a safe rule for his conduct in respect to the 
liberty of this press. "The English press was said to be enslaved ; but, when I 
came to consult the practice of this enslaved press, I found it still to be far too 
free for me to attempt to follow its example. Finally, it appeared to me to be 
the safest way, to form to myself some rule founded on the liberty exercised by 
the American press. I concluded that I might without danger go as great 
lengths in attacking the enemies of the country as others went in attacking its 
friends : that as much zeal might be shown in defending the general government 
and administration as in accusing and traducing them : and that as great 
warmth would be admissible in the cause of virtue, order, and religion, as had 
been tolerated in the wicked cause of villainy, insurrection, and blasphemy" 
(p. 21). Alas ! Peter, at this time, knew but little of the "spirit and temper," 
a.s Mb. Barrister Erskine would express it, of democracy and Jacobinism. 
He knew not that the men who profess those principles are for the most part 
vindictive, malignant, oppressive, and intolerant ; and that under the mask of 
liberty they exercise the most insupportable tyranny over their families and 
dependents, and that in their general conduct to their inferiors— unless when 
impelled by interest or urged by ambition, they irritate their passions with 
toasts and flattery, from a tavern-chair, or influence their minds by seditious 
discourses and treasonable insinuations, from a tribune or a scaffold— they are 
supercilious, arrogant, insolent, and overbearing. He knew not, it would seem, 
that those whose whole duty is to defend the laws often sleep on their 2'osts, while 
their enemies are ever vigilant, active, and alert ; that when the former are 
attacked, a tardiness of zeal, amounting nearly to torpor, secures, with few 
exceptions, impunity to the assailant ; whereas any exposure of the latter draws 
forth a malignity of revenge which is the certain fore-runner of persecution. 

MERCENARY TRAITORS AS TO RECEIVE THE PAY OF REGICIDES AND ASSASSINS 

is still less astonishing than that there should be found men in the different 
countries, and men of rank, too, so base, .so degenerate, and so foolish, as to give 
encouragenent to their treasonable productions " (p. 57). The author speaks 
truth ; there is at least one newspaper of this description in London, which is 
encouraged— to their shame be it spoken ! — by men of rank, and by members of 
the Legislature— iJejjrfSf?!(a)!s du Peuple Souverain! — who even degrade them- 
selves so far as to associate with the profligate miscreants who compose its 
inflammatory pages.— Reviewer. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 313 

Indeed, the inveteracy of the discontented, of that class which includes all 
those who aspire to the possession of place and power, and are little scrupulous 
about the means of attaining them ; and all the determined revolutionists or 
subverters of established institutions, may be traced to a natural source. Un- 
able to support by reason a cause which reason disavows, unable to strengthen 
by arguments positions which set all argument at defiance, it becomes their 
business to inflame by passion and to dazzle with sophistry. Hence arises an 
extreme facility of exposing their weakness aiul detecting their infamy, and 
not having the means of resisting such exposure, being wholly destitute of the 
sentiments which are necessary for a successful reply, they are reduced to the 
degrading alternative of abandoning the field to a triumphant adversary, or of 
seeking, by the adoption of violent measures, to punish the opponent whom they 
did not dare to encounter. This it is that renders revenge an active principle in 
their minds. 

The first step taken by the Spanish ambassador was an application to the 
federal government to prosecute our author " for certain matters published in 
his Gazette against himself and that poor, unfortunate, and humbled mortal, 
Charles IV., King of Spain". The government consented, and Peter was 
accordingly bound over to appear in the federal district court before Judge 
refers. Don Carlos, however, soon found that his prosecution would be more 
likely to succeed, if brought in a district where the defendant had more 
personal enemies, and where the people were more generally disposed to the 
adoption of revolutionary principles. A memorial was, accordingly, " delivered 
in to the federal government, requesting that the trial might come on before the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, of which Court McKeaa is Chief Justice". Of 
this re-puliiiean Judge our author gives such an account as must convey to 
English minds a .strange idea of the administration of republiuni Justice. It is 
to be found in P. 22— When Britons contemplate the character here delineated, 
and contrast it with the characters of their own Judges to which even the 
licentious tongue of faction has not dared to impute the smallest stain, their 
Ijosoms must glow with satisfaction of the most exalted kind ; they must exult 
in the superior excellence of that form of government and of those laws which 
effectually secure them from the evils of a vicious, corrupt, or partial distribu- 
tion of justice. After giving an historical detail of the proceedings against him, 
accompanied by copies of the warrant to apprehend him, the imputed libels, the 
bill of indictment, and the Judge's charge, Peter exclaims — "This, when it 
comes to be served up in Britain, will be a dish for a king. The royalists will 
lick their lips, and the republicans will cry, God bless us ! The emigrations 
for liberty's sake will cease, and we .shall have nothing but the pure unadulterated 
dregs of Newgate and the Fleet, the candidates for Tyburn and Botany Bay — 
Blessed cargo ! A.\\ patriots to the backbone : true philanthropists and univer.sal 
citizens : fit for any place but England in this world and heaven in the next ! " 

But, notwithstanding the Judge's charge, the most partial and scandalous 
charge, we conceive, that ever was delivered out of France, the Grand Jury re- 
fused to find the bill, and the prosecution of course i,eased. The Judge, not 
less disappointed than the prosecutor, on this occasion, took an early oppor- 
tunity—to his infamy be it recorded !— of declaring from the Bench that the 
Grand Jury would not do their duly. What would the disaffected in this country 
say were aiiy British Judge to use such language ? The gross imputations cast 
upon the character of our author by this impartial Judge, have extorted from 
Peter a tribute of justice to himself which the occasion most amply justifies. 
As the account here given perfectly accords with all the information we have 
received from persons of undoubted veracity who know him well, and as it 
fully corroborates the opinion we ourselves have formed of him, from an atten- 
tive perusal of his publications, we shall extract it for the satisfaction of our 
readers : — " It hardly ever becomes a man to say much of his private character 
or concerns ; but on this occasion I trust I shall be indulged for a moment. I 
will say, and I will make that saying good, whosoever shall oppose it, that I 
never attacked any one, whose private character is not, in every light in which 
it can possibly be viewed as far beneath mine as infamy is beneath honour. 
Nay, I defy the city of Philadelphia, populous as it is, and respectable as are 
many of its inhabitants, to produce me a single man \vho is more sober, in- 



314 POETRY OF 

dustrious, or honest ; who is a kinder husband, a tenderer father, a better 
master, a fonder friend, or (though last not least) a more zealous and faithful 
subject. 

" Most certainly it is unseemly in any one to say this much of himself unless 
compelled to it by some public outrage on his character ; but when the accusa- 
tion is made notorious so ought the defence ; and I do again and again repeat, 
that I fear not a comparison between my character and that of any man in this 
city : no, not even with that of the very Judge, who held me as the worst of 
miscreants. His Honour is welcome, if he please, to carry this comparison into 
(ili the actions of our lives, public and domestic, and to extend it beyond our- 
selves to every branch of our J'mnilies. 

" As to my writing, I never did slander any one, if the promulgation of useful 
truths be not slander. Innocence and virtue I have often endeavoured to defend, 
but I never defamed either. I have, indeed, stripped the close-drawn veil of 
hypocrisy ; I have ridiculed the follies, and lashed the vices of thousands, and 
have done it sometimes perhaps with a rude and violent hand. But these are 
not the days for gentleness and mercy. Such as is the temper of the foe, such 
must be that of his opponent. Seeing myself published as a rogue, and nuj wii'e 
a lohore; being per.secu ted with such infamous, such base and hellish calumny 
in the philantliroiiic city of Philadelphia, merely for asserting the truth respecting 
others, was not calculated, I assure you, to sweeten my temper, and turn my 
ink into honey-dew. 

" My attachment to order and good government, nothing but the impudence 
of Jacobinism can deny. The object not only of my own publications, but also 
of all tliose which I have introduced or encouraged, from the first moment that 
I appeared on the public scene to the present day, has been to lend some aid in 
stemming the torrent of anarchy and confusion. To undeceive the misguided, 
by tearing tlie mask from the artful and ferocious villains who owing to the 
infatuation of the poor, and the supineness of the rich, have made such fearful 
progress in the destruction of all that is amiable and good and sacred among 
men. To the governmeut of this country in particular it has been my constant 
study to yield" all the support in my power. When that government, or the 
worthy men who administer it have been traduced and vilified, I have stood 
forward.in their defence, and that too, in times when its friends were some of 
them locked up in silence, and others giving way to the audacious violence of 
its foes. Not that I am so foolishly vain as to attribute to my illiterate voter a 
thousandth part of the merit my friends are inclined to allow it. As I wrote 
the other day to a gentleman who had paid me some compliments on this score, 
' I should never look on my family with a dry eye if I did not hope to outlive my 
works'. They are mere transitory beings to which the revolutionary storm has 
given life, and which with that storm will expire. But, what I contend for and 
what nobody can deny, I have done all that laid in my power, all that I was 
able by any means to accomplish in order to counteract the nefarious effects of 
the enemies of the American government and nation. 

" With respect to religion, altho' Mr. M'Kean was pleased to number it among 
the things that were in danger from the licentiousness of the press, and of 
course from poor vie, I think it would puzzle the devil himself to produce from 
my writings, a single passage, which could, by all the powers of perversion be 
twisted into an attack upon it. But it would on the contrary be extremely easy 
to prove, that I have at all times, when an opportunity offered, repelled the 
attacks of its enemies, the abominable battalions of Deists and Atheists, with 
all my heart, with all my mind, with all my soul, and with all my strength. 
The bitterest drop in my pen has ever been bestowed upon them ; because, of 
all the foes of the human race, I look upon them, after the devil, as being the 
greatest and most dreadful. Not a sacrilegious plunderer from Henry VIII. to 
Condorcet, and from Condorcet to the impious Sans-culottes of France, has 
escaped my censure. All those, who have attempted to degrade religion whether 
by open insults and cruelties to the clergy, by blasphemous publications or by 
the more dangerous poison of the malignant modern philosophy, I have ranked 
amongst the most infamous of mankind, and have treated them accordingly." 

In the concluding part of his tract the author clearly convicts the Judge of 
the most decided and most flagrant partiality. He quotes a number of infamous 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 315 

libels, on religious and political subjects, -which had never roused the indigna- 
tion, nor even excited the censure, of those whose duty it is to preserve the 
public peace and to enforce a due observance of the laws. If, indeed, we were 
to judge, from this specimen, of the mode of administriiig justice in America, in 
matters of libel, we should conclude, that every degree of licentiousness is allowed 
to those who seek to debauch the minds of the people, to seduce them from 
their allegiance, and to dissolve every tie which religion and morality have 
formed for the happiness of men in a social state, while the upright supporters 
of virtue, whose labours are directed to the prevention of anarchy and rebellion, 
by detecting the views and exposing the machinations of their abettors, are the 
sole objects not merely of j)iosecution but of persecution. 

The" abuse bestowed on the mild and beneficent sovereigns of these realms 
by the Democratic factions in the American Congress, is almost equal in severity 
to the censures lavished by some members of opposition during the last parlia- 
ment in the British Senate, on the Kings of Prussia and Hungary, before those 
mouarchs had become allies of France. 

The following extracts will, at once, afford a criterion of the political prin- 
ciples of public men, in the State of Pennsylvania, and a curious specimen of 
republican morality. 

"The Governor (Mifflin) attended at a civic festival, when the following 
toasts were drunk, which were published in most of the newspapers.* 

'"Those illustriozis citizens sent to Botany Bay. May they be siKcdily 
recalled by their country in the da>/ of her regeneration.' 

" ' May the spirit of parliamentary reform in Britain and Ireland burst 
the bonds of corruption, and orerwhelm tlie foes ofliberti/.' 

"'The sans-culottes of France. May the robes of all the Enrperors, Kings, 
Princes, and Potentates [not excepting the King of Spain] now employed in 
suppressing the flame of liberty, be cut up to make breeches.' 

"This is pretty 'Acfiit' in a Governor; but without stopping to remark on 
the peculiar decency of his toasting a gang of convicts, let us come to another 
instance of his conduct, full as 'decent' as this. 

"At the civic festival, held in this city in 1794, to celebrate the dethrone- 
ment of ' our great and good ally, Louis XVL' there were ' assembled,' according 
to the 'proccs verbal' which was sent to the Paris convention, 'the chiefs, 
civil and rnilitari/'. This ]iroc'cs verbal contains a letter to the convention, in 
which the following honourable mention is made of the governor. 'The 
Governor of Pennsylvania, that ardent friend of the French republic, was present, 
and partook of all our eni/iusiasin and «/^ our sentiments.' t 

" I believe they spoke truth ; for the cannons of the State were fired, and 
military companies, with drums beating and colours flying, attended the 
execrable fSte, one of the ceremonies of which was burning the English dag ; and 
as to the sentiments contained in the oaths and .speeches (for there were both) 
they abounded in insults towards almost all the princes of the earth, but 
particularly the King of Cireat Britain. 

"A Judge of Pennsylvania, Redm.vn, was, in November, 1795, caught 
thieving in the shop of I\lR. Folwell, the dry-goods merchant in Front Street. 
Mr. Folwell detected him, took the money (s30U) from him, and kicked hira 
into the street. His friemts, among the most intimate of whom was His 
Excellency the Governor, advised him to retire ; and he is still living at his ease 
about 20 miles from the city. No justice was ever done to him ; he was never 
censured, not even in the newspapers ! Such is the cowardly, base, and worth- 
less press of America. Such are republicanjudges, and such is republican morality ! 

* " See B.A^CHE of 11 February, 1795." 

t The reader will not be surprised to hear that this is the identical governor 
who wanted a few thousands of dollars from the French minister, Fauchet, 
and who drew secretly 15,000 dollars out of the Bank of Pennsylvania ! ! This 
man brought a whole litter of beistards home to his virtuous wife. He is a 
shameless blackguard, a drunkard, and everything that can be named that is 
vile. Such is a republican governor; a chief magistrate of state, who has 
infinitely gi-eater powers over life and property than King George has ! ! And 
this I have already pointed out on sundry occasions. 



316 POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

But this is not the worst. I know a Judge who committed murder ! wilful mur- 
der, and that, too, previous to his appointment by this our republican Governor ! 

" I only give a sort of hint here. One day or other if it pleases God to spare 
Diy life, I will publish such a collection of facts as will shock the universe. 

"A Pennsylvania Judge's vi/e had, a little while ago, a child, by a man who 
kept a livery stable. The lady says, the stableman is the best of the two and_ so 
has married him, though his Honour is still living. I need not name the parties, 
for though the cowardfy newspapers have never noticed the affair it is notorious 
enough. 

"There are more bastards born annuallyin the single state of Pennsylvania,than 
in all the British dominions : and as to cuckoldom, I will only say that every 
paper teems with c(dvcrtisemc7its ofvdrrg eloped from the bed and board of their 
husbands. I do not hence insinuate that there are no good people here. There 
are many. As many as in most countries ; but then people will, and do allow, 
that the morals of the country are approaching fast to that state, which has 
never yet failed to prove the ruin of every thing held in esteem amongst men./ 

In proving the falseliood of tlie assertion so f requentlyrepeated, as well on this 
as on the other side of the Atlantic, that "in America the press is, free and truth 
is not a libel," our author adverts to a letter of Dr. Priestley's on that sub- 
ject which he promises hereafter to expose more fully (a promise which we trust 
lie will not forget) ; and then introduces the following curious anecdote, which 
we extract for the benefit of the Doctor's political friends and admirers in 
Europe. ' ' But since the Doctor wrote that letter it seems experience has changed 
his opinion. He has suffered the just punishment of his malignancy againstliis 
country ; he has been cheated, neglected, and scorned. He is now in an obscurity 
hardly penetrable ; he is reduced to poverty and bursting with vexation " (may 
a restless spirit of innovation, springing from, and nourished ))y, a bigotted 
vanity and a turbulent pride ever experience a similar fate) ! All this has had 
an effect ; and I will state as a fact, which I call upon him to deny if he can, 
that he has lately declared "that Repvblicem governments arc the most abitrary in 
the world " .' This Machiavel had said before, and this all unprejudiced men of 
reading and observation had long since admitted ; but, we confess we little ex- 
pected to hear Doctor Prie.stley subscribe to the creed of the one, or to the 
acknowledgments of the other. Adversity, however, is an able advocate in the 
cause of truth. 

The Address to the People of England, which is prefixed to the publication, 
is sliort, but pointed and expressive. It breathes the true spirit of a Briton. 
Of the literary merit of the work, after the ample analysis which we have given 
of its contents, and the extracts which we have made, little remains to be said. 
■\Ve agree with the publisher, who in the Advertisement says: "The author 
has been more anxious to strengthen his arguments than to polish his style, to 
convince the judgment than to flatter the taste," but those critics must be more 
"(icncaie" or fastidious who can reject substantial advantages for fanciful de- 
fects. Though Peter aim not at embellishments, he possesses great strength 
and energy of language, and generally writes witli more accuracy than most of 
the American authors, who, be it observed, have a phraseology peculiar to 
themselves. This tract contains much important information, and we strenuously 
recommend it to the serious perusal of our countrymen ; particularly to such 
of them as are disposed to question the superior advantages which they enjoy, 
over ALL republican states under our own well-poised and limited monarchy. 
The following admonitions with which the author conchules, will, we trust, 
have a due effect on the minds of those to whom they are addressed. " Such, 
Britons, is the fruit of republican govei-nment here ; not among the apish and 
wolfish French, but among a people descended from the same ancestors as your- 
selves. When your monarchial government bears such fruits, let it, I say, be 
hewn down and cast into the fire ; but till that disgraceful and dreadful day 
comes, watch over it with care and defend it to the last drop of your blood, 
preserve it as you would a golden casket, the apple of your eye, or the last dear 
gift of your dying parents. Witli this I conclude, praying the God of our fathers 
to lead you in the practice of all their virtues, to give wisdom to your minds and 
strength to your arms, to keep you firm and united, honest and generous, loyal, 
brave, and free ; but above all, to preserve you from the desolating and degrad- 
ing curse of revolutionary madness and modern republicanism." 



PETER PORCUPINE'S AVILL. 

[By William Cobbett. Published in The Anti-Jacobin Revieto and Magazine; 
ov Monthly Political and Literary Censor : from July to December, 1798. Vol. 
i., pp. 72oS.— Ed.] 

In the name of Fun, Amen. I Peter Porcupine, Pamphleteer and News- 
monger, being (as yet) sound both in body and in mind, do, this fifteenth day of 
April, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, 
make, declare, and publish, this my Last Will and Testament, in manner, 
form, and substance following ; to wit : 
In Primis, 

I leave my body to Doctor Michael Lieb, a member of the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania, to be by him dissected (if he knows how to do it) in presence of 
the Rump of the Democratic Society. In it they will find a heart that held them 
in abhorrence, that never palpitated at their threats, and that, to its last beat, 
bade them defiance. But my chief motive for making this bequest is, that my 
spirit may look down with contempt on their cannibal-like triumph over a 
breathless corpse. 

Item. As I make no doubt that the above said Doctor Lieb (and some other 
Doctors that I could mention) would like very well to skin me, I request that 
they, or one of them may do it, and that the said Lieb's father may tan my 
skin ; after which I desire my Executors to have seven copies of my Works com- 
plete, bound in it, one copy to be presented to the Five Sultans of France, one to 
each of their Divans, one to the Governor of Pennsylvania, to Citizens Maddison, 
Giles, and Gallatin one each, and the remaining one to the Democratic Society of 
Philadelphia, to be carefully preserved among their archives. 

Ilem. To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councils of the City of Philadelphia, I 
bequeath all the sturdy young hucksters, who infest tlie market, and who to 
maintain their bastards, tax the honest inhabitants many thousand pounds 
annually. I request them to take them into their worshipful keeping ; to chasten 
their bodies for the good of their souls ; and moreover to keep a sharp look-out 
after their gallants ; and remind the latter of the old proverb : Touch pot, touch 
■penny. 

Ittia. To T J son. Philosopher, I leave a curious Norway Spider, with 

a hundred legs and nine pair of eyes ; likewise the first black cut-throat general 
he can catch hold of, to be flead alive, in order to determine with more certainty 

the real cause of the dark colour of his skin ; and should the said T J son 

survive Banneker the Almanack Maker ; I request he will get the brains of said 
Philomath carefully dissected, to satisfy the world in what respects they differ 
from those of a white man. 

htm. To the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, I will and bequeath a 
correct copy of Thornton's plan for abolishing the use of the English language, 
and for introducing in its stead a republican one, the representative characters of 
which bear a strong resemblance to pot-hooks and hangers ; and for the dis- 
covery of which plan, the said society did, in the year 1793, grant to the said 
language maker ."JOO dollars premium. It is my earnest desire, that the copy of 
this valuable performance, which I hereby present, may be shown to all the 
travelling literati, as a proof of the ingenuity of the author and of the wisdom of 
the society. 

Item. To Doctor Benjamin Rush, I will and bequeath a copy of The Censor 
for January, 1797 ; but, upon the express condition, that he does not in anywise 



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or guise, either at the time of my death, or Six months after, pretend to speak, 
write, or publish an eulogiuin on me, my calling or character, either literary, 
military, civil, or political. 

Iteni. To my dear fellow labourer Noah Webster, "gentleman-citizen," 
Esq. and News-man, I will and bequeath a prognosticating barometer of curious 
construction and great utility, by which, at a single glance, the said Noah will 
be able to discern the exact state that the public mind will be in in the ensuing 
year, and will thereby be enabled to trim b>i de;irecs and not expose himself to 
detection, as he rio'Vv does by his sudden lee-shore tacks. I likewise bequeath to 
the said "gentleman-citizen," six Spanish milled dollars, to be expended on a 
new plate of his portrait at the head of his sjielling book, that which graces it at 
present being so ugly that it scares the children from their lessons ; but this 
legacy is to be paid him only upon condition that he leave out the title of 
'Squire, at the bottom of said picture, which is extremely odious in an American 
school-book, and must inevitably tend to corrupt the political principles of the 
republican babies that behold it. And I do most earnestly desii-e, exhort and 
conjure the said 'Squire news-man, to change the title of his paper. The Minerva, 
for that of The Pnlitiral (Antaur. 

Item. To F. A. Mughlenburg, Elsq., Speaker of a late house of Representa- 
tives of the United States, I leave a most superbly finished statue of Janus. 

Item. To Tom the Tinker, I leave a liberty-cap, a tricolovired cockade, a 
wheel-barrow full of oysters, and a hogshead of grog : I also leave him three 
blank checks on the bank of Pennsylvania, leaving to him the task oi filling 
them vp ; requesting him, however, to be rather more merciful than lie has 
shown himself heretofore. 

Item. To the Governor of Pennsylvania, and to the late President and 
Cashier of the Bank of the said State, as to joint Legatees, I will and bequeath 
that good old proverb : Honest)/ is the best polic)/. And this legacy I have chosen 
for these worthy gentlemen, as the only thing about which I am sure they will 
never disagree. 

Item. To T Coxe, of Philadelphia, citizen, I will and bequeath a crown 

of hemlock, as a recompense for his attempt to throw an odium on the 
administration of General Washington ; and I most positively enjoin my 
Executors, to see that the said crown be shaped exactly like that which thib 
spindle-shanked legatee wore before Gen. Howe, when he made his triumphal 
entry into Philadelphia. 

Item. To Thomas Lord Bradford (otherwise called Goosy Tom), Book-seller, 
Printer, News-man, and member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 
I will and bequeath a copy of the peerage of Great Britain, in order that the 
said Lord Thomas may the more exactly ascertain what probability tliere is of 
his succeeding to the seat, which his noble relation now fills in the House of Lords. 

Item. To all and singular the authors in the United States, whether they 
write verse or prose, I will and bequeath a copy of my Life and Adventures ; and 
I advise the said authors to study with particular care the 40th and 41st pages 
thereof ; more especially and above all things, I exhort and conjure them never 
to publish it toe/ether, though the bookseller should be a saint. 

Item. To Edmund Randolph, Esq., late Secretary of State, to Mr J. A. 
Dallas, Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, and to His Excellency, Thomas 
Miffin, Governor of the said unfortunate State, I will and bequeath, to each of 
them, a copy of the sixteenth paragraph of Fauchet's intercepted letter. 

Item. To Citizen John Swanwick, member of Congress, by the will and 
consent of the sovereign people, I leave bills of Exchange on London to an 
«normous amount ; they are all protested, indeed, but if properly managed, may be 
turned to good account. I likewise bequeath to the said John a small treatise 
by an Italian author, wherein the secret of pleasing the ladies is developed, 
and reduced to a mere mechanical operation, without the least dependence on 
the precarious aid of the passions. Hoping that these instances of my liberality 
will pi'oduce, in the mind of the little legislature, effects quite different from 
those produced therein by the King of Great Britain's pension to his parents. 

Item. To the Editors of the Boston Chronicle, the Neio York Arr/us, and the 
Philadelphia Merchants' Advertiser, I will and bequeath one ounce of modesty and 
love of truth, to be equally divided between them. 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 319 

I should have been more liberal in this bequest, were I not well assured 
that one ounce is more than they will ever make use of assuied, 

Item To Franklin Bache, Editor of the Aurora or P/uladelnhia I will and 
bequeath a small bundle of French assignats, which I bro sht w th me fiom 
the country of equality. If these should be too lij^ht in value for lis pfessfnS 
exigencies I desire my executors, or any one of them to bestow on him f 
second part to what he has lately received in South" ark ■ andTs Tfnrttier 
proof of my good .v;ill and affection, I request him to accept o I g^a-* and I 

Ran To my beloved countrymen, the people of Old England I will and 

^mT; and T^'ll^ ^r*""" Pr-'^'""^-^ ^''«';'^^ Sermon. for the MtofvoorE^- 
grants, and to the said preaching philosopher himself, I bequeath a heart full 
of disappointment, grief, and despair. ^ 

Ran To the good people of France, who remain attached to their sovereign 
particularly to those among whom I was hospitably received, I bequeath each a 
good strong dagger: hoping most sincerely that they may vetTncl coi™ 
enough to carry them to the hearts of their abominable tyrants co"'-ag:e 

Item lo Citizen U oe, I will and bequeath my chamber lookino-.elass 

It IS a plain but exceeding true mirror ; in it he will see the exact hken?sf of a 
ami savage enemy.'"''^"'"' '^' ^°"°"'^ ^'"' ^''^''^'' "^ '"^ ''"""^'-^ *« ^ pertidiout 
Iteva. To the Republican Britons, who have fled from the hands of iustice 
f^^^ ovvii country, and who are a scandal, a nuisance, and a disgrace to th^ 
I bequeath hunger and nakedness, scorn and reproach and I do hereby posi^ 
tively enjoin on my executors to contribute five hundred dollars towards the 
erection of gallowses and gibbets, for the accommodation of the saidlmported 
patriots, when the legislators of this unhappy state shall have the wiXm to 
countenance such useful establishments. * e i^ue wisaom co 

Item My friend, J. T. Callender, the runaway from Scotland, is of course 
a partaker in the last mentioned legacy ; but as a particular mark of my atten: 
tiou, I will and bequeath him twenty feet of pine plank, which I request mv 
:.fb^^^fjZnt^p^^epTicV"*° ^ ^"^'^'•^' *° '^^ ^^P* ^- '^-particular ^^t^l 
Item. To Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense, Rights of Ma7i Aae of 
Reason, and a Letter to General Washington, I bequeath a strong hempen collar 
as the only egacy I can think of that is worthy of him as well as best adapted 
to render his death in some measure as infamous as his life : and I do hereby 
direct and order my Executors to send it to him by the first safe conveyance 
with my compliments, and request that he would make use of it without delay 
that the national razor may not be disgi-aced by the head of such a monster ^' 
itun lo the gaunt outlandish orator, vulgarly called the Politic'il Sinnor 
who in the just order of things follows nkt after the last iLntCed legatee 
I bequeath the honour of partaking in his catastrophe ; that in theii deaths as 
It^^'TTlu^'^'i ^'^ ^^? ''^^'^ may exclaim : ""see how rorZslZXfetka^^ 
Item Toa-n and singular the good people of these States, I leave peace 
union, abundance, happiness, untarnished honour, and an unconquerable eve?- 
idndlles ' ''"''' Revolutionists and their destructrv^e Abominable 

Item To each of my Subscribers I leave a quiU, hoping that in their hands 
It may become a sword against every thing that is hostile to the gwernment 
and independence of their country. kuc ouveuimenc 

leistl)/. To my three brothers, Paul, Simon, and Dick, I leave mv whole 

dfvt, p'/h 7'" '■''h ^' P^''°"'^' ^^''f PaJ''"^ "^^^ foregoing legacies) to be^equlny 
divided between them, share and share alike. And I do hereby make and con- 
stitute my said three brothers the Executors of this my last will • to see the 
power he's?'"' ' ''''=''°''""S to its true intent and meaning, as far' as in their 

Witnesses present, ^^^^^ PORCUPINE. 

Philo Fun, I 
Jack Jockus. ^ 



THE VISION OF LIBERTY. 

Written in the manner of Spenser. 

[As the virulent style of political writing prevalent ninety years ago is now 
but little known, the present edition of The Poetn/ of the Anti-Jacobin seemed a 
convenient medium for giving some specimens of it which appeared in The Anti- 
Jacobin Rerkii- and MarjaHiie, a work conducted on the same principles, but by 
different writers, and witli the cognizance of the government. Two of them 
were by W. Cobbett, who, had he been less arrogant and contentious, and more 
consistent, would have been, in the words of Lord Bailing, "a very great man 
in the world ; as it was lie made a great noise in it ". (See pp. 311-319.) 

The Vision of libcrti/ is by C. KiUKPATRiCK Sharpe, an author and artist 
much esteemed by Scottish antiquarians, of which specimens only need be 
p^ven. Of The Anarchists, the author is not known.] 



O WRETCHED man, how long wilt thou refuse 

Thy Maker's favour, and His mercy great ? 

How long thy worldly happiness abuse, 

And growl and grumble at thy present state? 

Seeking accursed change both .so<jn and late, 

And newest modes allured still to try^ 

England, beware God's wrath to aggravate, 

For foreign magic blinds thy charmed eye, 

And Liberty, sweet Liberty, is now the constant cry. 

IL 

As on my couch in slumber's ai'uis I lay, 

A vision did my senses entertam ; 

Of late, me thought in France I miss'd my way. 

Amid a columnless deserted plain ; 

No man or beast upon it did remain. 

Swept off by Discord's wide destroying strife : 

Ne planted fence, ne field of waving grain, 

INIarking the toiling farmer's busy life, 

But ruined huts and castles, brent, were wondrous rife. 

III. 

Yet on this plain, most goodly to behold. 

Saw I a temple tow'ring to the sky. 

The dome where of was made of basest gold, 

!Most false, but yet most lovely to the eye ; 

And rotting pillars reareth it on high. 

Of ghastly hnniun heads, and clotted gore. 

With dust, y'niixt the mortar doth supply. 

While foulest birds still round this temple soar. 

And filthy serpents hiss, and giant hyenas roar. , 



POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 321 

IV. 

Amona; the heads that did the mass compose, 
Three royal skulls were there— one of a king- 
Meek saint, who never once revil'd his foes, 
His bloody foes that him to scaffold bring ; 
One of a maid ; O heaven ! that I could sing 
With Spenser's tongue, her spotless purity, 
Her holy zeal, in courts so rare a thing. 
By lawless fiends conderan'd she was to die. 
And sent, untimely sent, to seek her native sky. 

V. 

The third I marked with melancholy eyes, 

A female head, that once a crown did wear, 

Cut off in life's full bloom, now low she lies. 

The loose loves weeping o'er her early bier, 

Nor Virtue's self denies a tender tear ; 

So young a creature, wonder not she fell. 

And left the paths of chastity severe. 

Debauched by a court where lust did dwell 

Like treach'rous Circe, skill'd in many a witching spell. 

VI. 

Ah ! where are now her gorgeous robes of state. 

The ghtt'nng gems that did her fairness deck? 

The cringing nobles that on her did wait. 

The higli-born dames that kneeled at her beck ' 

Alas ! a ghastly face, a bloody neck, 

A simple winding-sheet is now her share ; 

Look here, ye proud ones, on this mighty wreck. 

And learn what perishable stuff ye are, 

Fi-om her poor mangled carcase, once so sweet and fair. 

VII. 

And on the ground there lay a murder'd child 

A piteous sight it was, and full of woe, 

Who, when alive, by every art defil'd. 

With poison, they at last did overthrow, 

Wretches, who never ruth or conscience know ; 

O lovely flowret cropt by villain hands. 

How will thy butchers dread th' almighty brow, 

Arm'd with frowns, when each at judgment stands. 

And God the meed of murder from His throne commands. 

VIIL 

Then o'er the portal was this motto plac'd, 

" The Iiouse of liberty," in gold y'writ. 

And, vent'ring in, I stood like one amaz'd 

Such sights of horror on my heart-strings smit. 

There Infidelity, in moody fit, 

Hugg'd Suicide— there Rage, and deadly Fears, 

There Lechery, with goatish leer did sit. 

And Murder, quaffing up his victim's tears. 

With thousand other crimes, too foul for human ears. 

IX. 

In 'mid the house an image stood in state. 
Like to Voltaire in visage and in shape, 
Wither'd his heart with fellest rage and hate 
Shrivell'd and lean his carcase like an ape 

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322 POETEY OF 



And num'rous crowds upon the same did gape. 

As he all-naked stood to every eye ; 

Above an altar covered with crape, 

And formed of his books one might descry, 

Profane and lewd it was, and cramm'd with many a lie. 

X. 

And Still from 'neath the altar roared he, 

As from a bull lowing in cavern deep, 

" Come worship me, men, come worship ihe ; 

Spit on the cross, of Jesus take no keep, 

I promise you an everlasting sleep ; 

The soul and body Vioth shall turn to clay ; 

Ye penitents, why do ye sigh and weep ? 

Let not damnation's terrors you affray. 

Come learn my lore that drives all foolish fears away ". 



XIV. 

Next came that cursed felon Thomas Paine, 

Mounted upon a tiger fierce and fell ; 

And still a shower of blood on him doth rain, 

With tears that from the eyes of widows well ; 

Loud in his ears the cries of orphans yell ; 

The axe impending o'er his head alway 

While devils wait to catch his sonl to hell. 

The knave is flll'd with anguish and dismay — 

And anxious round he looks, even straws do him affray. 

XV. 

Then saw I mounted on a braying ass 
William and Mary, sooth, a couple jolly ; 
Who maiTied, note ye how it came to pass. 
Although each held that marriage was but folly. 



XVIIL 

Then came Maria Helen Williaais Stone, 
Sitting upon a goat with bearded chin ; 
And she hath written volumes many a one ; 
Better the idle jade had learned to spin. 



XIX. 

Next mounted on a monster like a louse. 

With parchments loaded, came a man of law,* 

Sprung from an ancient Caledonian house. 

Cunningly could he quibble out a flaw ; 

And this sage man would chatter like a daw, 

To prove the moon green cheese, and black, pure white. 

Spitting out treason from his greedy maw ; 

To breed sedition was his chief delight, 

And scratch men's scabs to ulcers still with all his might. 



[* Lord Erskine.— Ed.] 



THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 323 



XX. 

Then on an Irish bull of skin a'ld bone, 

A foul churl * rode, who still a harp would strum, 

A harp Hibernian, stringless saving one. 

Well tun'd to harsh sedition's growling hum ; 

He hit the bull on which he had his bum 

Full many a bitter pang, nor gave him rest — 

Dealing his blows on Teagues that roimd him come, 

Grieving the while for man and brute opprest, 

Chaunting the Irish howl, abhorr'd of man and beast. 

XXI. 

O Ireland, spot accurs'd — tho' glorious fair. 
Shines there the sun, the flowers enamell'd blow, 
And scent, with fragrance sweet, tlie balmy air, 
Rippling the gliding pools that softly flow ; 
No noxious reptile there to man a foe 
Abides, but black revenge with cautious plan, 
Cool-blooded cruelty with torments slow. 
Springs rank ; with weeds the goodly soil's o'er-ran, 
And all the reptile's venom rankles in the man. 

XXII. 

Then in a gorgeous car of beaten gold. 

Drove on a portly man, of mighty rank,t 

A person comely, of extraction old ; 

But, carrion-like, his reputation stank ; 

Sly was the wight, with crafty quip and crank. 

To cram with glittering coin his bursting bags ; 

Yet whilom taxing-men play'd him a prank. 

By catching in their traps some strayed nags, 

And eke some livery slaves, in miser's livery rags. 

XXIII. 

Then on a turtle came proud London's Mayor, 
Followed by Aldermen, a frowsy crew, 
Strong smelling of Cheapside, and luscious fair. 
Yet apoplexy made his followers few. 
Long antlers on the head of each man grew, 
So that they seem'd a host of moving horn ; 
Anon as on they came they'd mump and chew, 
Stuffing their guts from dawning of the morn, 
Till shades of evening fell— for eating only born. 

XXIV. 

On a cock sparrow fed with Spanish flies, 
A swilling Captain came, with liquor mellow. 
And still the crowd in hideous uproar cries, t 

" Sing us a bawdy song, thou d d good fellow ". 

Incontinent he sets himself to bellow. 

And shouts with all the strength that in him lies ; 

The Citizets exclaim, " He's sans pareilly O"; 

The Citizens in raptures roll their eyes. 

And drink with leathern ears, the fool's lewd ribaldries. 

[ T. Moore in his early college days.— Ed.] 

[t Francis, fifth Duke of Bedford, see Ballad.— Ed.] 

[t Capt. Charles Morris. — En.] 



324 



POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



On came these wights, and many more beside. 

Thick as the grains of sand upon the shore, 

Thick as a swarm of flies in summer tide, 

That on a dunghill hive and hover o'er ; 

Most had their hides all scall'd, their trousers tore ; 

Many sans breeches, shameless trudg'd along. 

And many a noble knave and titled w e, 

With Irfsh bog-trotters would crowd and throng, 
Carolling catches base, and filthy French chanson. 

XXVI. 

Like roaring waves they cover'd all the plain ; 

And tho' equality they still requir'd, 

Each cudgell'd sore his breast with might and main. 

Each to get foremost ardently desir'd. 

Some fell into the dirt, and foul were mir'd. 

The rest rode over them and took no heed. 

Their yells, with patriotic ardour fired, 

So made my flesh to quake with very dread. 

That jNlorpheus left my couch, and all the vision fled. 

The insertion of the foregoing poem (which was never printed) into your 
entertaining and useful publication, will much oblige, 



Your humble servant. 



0. K. 




INDEX TO THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

4th FAition, 1799; 2 vols., 8yo. 



A. 

Abuse, a new and approved method of conveying, vol. i., p. 502. 

Acme and Septimius, or the Happy Union, vol. i., p. 452. 

Advertisements : Government strenuously advised to withdraw them from the 

Jacobin Papers, vol. ii., p. 119. 
Advei-tisemcnts, Government, withdrawn from the Jacobin Papers, vol. ii., pp. 

308, 490. 
Address of City of Londonderry to Lord Camden, vol. i., p. 356 ; His Lordship's 

Reply, 358. 
Ad—r, Mr. Robert, tries to imitate IMr. Burke's style, vol. i., p. 377 — fails egre- 

gionsly— mistakes a coffin for a corpse — transmutes the head of the house 

of Russell into lead, p. 378— writes half a letter to Mr. Fox— and puts the 

world in high good humour, p. 422. 
Agricola : his letter on the advantages of a well-regulated economy, vol. i., p. 583. 
Anecdotes respecting Lord Duncan's victory, vol. i., pp. 38, 107. 
Appropriate Speech— See Lord William Russell. 
Assessed Taxes : benefits arising from trebling them, vol. i., p. 16— horrible effects 

of, vol. i., pp. 347, 503. 
Assessed Taxes evaded by the Duke of Bedford— See Bedford, Duke of. 

B. 

Bachelor: his letter, vol. i., p. 258— his definition of a p.^triot, vol. i., p. 261. 

Bacchus : a life of him forged by the Morning Chronicle for tlie diabolical purpose 
of burlesquing the life and death, and resurrection and ascension of Our 
Blessed Saviour, vol. i., p. 220, &c. 

Balh/nahinch, a loi/al town of Lord Moira's — a meeting of rebel delegates held 
there, vol. i., p. 83. 

Ballynahinch, a new song, vol. ii., p. 603. 

Ballynahinchers : loyal countenances of, read by Lord Moira, vol. ii., p. 507 — 
loyal professions of, heard by ditto— rob the king's stores— debauch his 
troops — attack them, and are cut to pieces, vol. ii., p. 519. 

Bedford, Duke of : his Surcharge of 25 Servants and 17 Horses, vol i., pp. 230, 254. 

Bedford, Duke of : justified for evading the Assessed Taxes, by the Morning 
Post, vol. i., p. 255 — and by the Morning Chronicle, p. 297 — proved to have 
gained much honour by evading the Assessed Taxes, by the Morning Post, 
vol. i., p. 256 — cleared from any attempt to evade the Assessed Taxes, by a 
note of admii-ation, by the Courier, p. 350. 

Bcresford, Mr., character of him, vol. ii., p. 556. 

Bit of an Ode to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422. 

Blockade of the Seine, vol. i., pp. 571, 616. 



326 POETKY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

Blas'jihemy attempted without success by the Morning Post, vol. i., p. 505— and 
by the Courier — fully succeeded in by the Morning Chronicle, vol. i., p. 325, 
&c. 

Bosville, Mr., Banker to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., p. 409. 

Brownriycj, Mrs. : Inscription for the Door of her Cell in Newgate, vol. i., p. 35. 

British Merchant, his Letter on the misrepresentations of the Party, \\\i\\. respect 
to the continuance of the War, vol. i., p. 593. 

Brissot's Ghost, voj. ii., p. 236. 

Burdett, Sir Something : his affectionate mention of Mr. Paine at the Shake- 
speare Tavern, vol. i., p. 136. 

Burdett, Sir Francis, runner to the Corresponding Society, vol. i., p. 408. 

Buonaparti: his health given by Mr. Macfungus, vol. i., p. 35 — his Letter to the 
Commandant at Zantt?, vol. ii., p. 535. 

0. 

CamiUb Jordan, asserts that one of our Jacobin Newspapers is in the pay of 
France, vol. i., pp. 507, 622 ; vol. ii., pp. 17, 51, 86, 488. 

Camhridije Intellirjencer, detected and exposed, vol. ii., pp. 263, 296. 

Chcmj Chase ; a Ballad to the Tune of, vol. ii., p. 21. 

Choice, The : an Ode, vol. i., p. 263. 

Clare, The Earl of. Character of, vol. ii. , p. 544. 

Clare, Earl of : proposes a question respecting the extent of Lord Moira's 
DUPERY, vol. ii., p. 518. 

Clever : See Mr Robert Ad— r, vol. i., p. 422. 

Coughine/ und laughing : See Mr. John Nicholls, vol. i., p. 186. 

Courtney, Mr., fully convicted of kidnapping — I'liymes, vol. i., p. 376. 

Coalition, The New : an Ode, vol. i., p. 599. 

Cocdition of Kings, vol. ii., p. 546. 

Constant Reader : his Letter on the Designs of our foreign and domestic Enemies, 
vol. i., pp. 544, 597. 

Courier, The ; a mad— and foolish— and odious— and contemptible paper, passim. 
Picked up by a Gentleman in the streets, for the sake of its superior infor- 
mation ! ! ! vol. ii., p. 230. 



Detector: Lis Letter on the pretended Treaty of Pavia, vol. i., p. 474 — On the 
Treaty of Pilnitz, vol. ii., p. 37— On the Coalition of Kings, vol. ii., p. 546. 

Description of a very extraordinary Plant now growing at Paris, vol. ii., p. 573. 

Description of Mr. Fox's Radical Reform, vol. i., p. 396. 

Description of a Scribbler for the Jacobin Papers, vol. i., p. 613. 

Description of the Jacobin Prints, vol. ii., p. 119. 

Decius Mus : his account of the Secessions in the Roman Common Wealth, vol. 
i., p. 261. 

Dismissed of the Duke of Norfolk, vol. i., p. 429. 

Duncan, Lord : Anecdotes relative to his Victory, vol. i., pp. 38, 107. 

Duke, The, and the Taxing Man, vol. i., p. 265. 

Dupery of Lord Moira, vol. ii., pp. 36, 618, &c., &c. 



Edwards, Mr. Bryan : offers to pay for Mr. Nicholls's dinner at the Crown and 
Anchor — finds his pockets pick'd— his exclamation thereat, vol. i., p. 410. 

Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon Saint Andre, vol. ii., p. 314. 

Epigram on the Loan upon England, vol. i., p. 267. 

E2nstle, Poetical, to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin, vol. i., p. 371. Reply to 
ditto, vol. i., p. 371. 

Epistle, Poetical, to the Author of the Anti- Jacobin, vol. i., p. 486. 



INDEX TO THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 327 

Srskine, Mr. : his definition of Himself at the Meeting of the Friends of Freedom 
— clothed with the infirmities of man's nature— in many respects a finite 
being— disclaims all pretensions to superhuman powers — has been both a 
soldier and a sailor— has a son at Winchester school — has been called by 
special retainers into many parts of the country, travelling chiefly in post- 
chaises — is of Noble, perhaps, Royal Blood — has a house at Hampstead — 
faints between the subdivisions of his discourse— is conveyed to his car- 
riage — tricked by the chairmen who were hired to draw it — and finally 
taken home by his own horses, vol. i., p. I'ZS, &c. 

Expedition against Ostend, vol. ii., pp. 367, 377, 442, 48(3, 596. 

F. 

Finance, vol. i., pp. Hi, 44, 85, 143, 212, 244, 313, 391, 607 ; vol. ii., p. 224. 

Foreign Intellii/ence, vol. i., pp. 41, 73, 105, 138, 170, 206, 238, 267, 305, 339, 382, 424, 

453, 491, 528, 560, 600, 629 ; vol. ii., 23, 57, 101, 136, 174, 206, 239, 280, 318, 346, 

389, 430, 461, 499, 540, 577, 608. 
Foreign Intdligciict E.ctraonUnary, vol. ii., p. 535. 
Fox, Mr : his Speech at the Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. 1., p. 92 — 

his Radical Reform described, 396 — Celebration of his Nativity at the Crown 

and Anchor, 408— his Speech, 412 — his Song, 413 — A Bit of an Ode to, 422 — 

Lines written under a Bust of him, 489— his dismissal from the Privy Council, 

vol. ii., p. 293. 
French RevohUion, origin and progress of, vol. i., p. 22. 
French Revohition, not to be defended or illustrated by a comparison with the 

civil wars of this country, vol. ii., p. 17. 
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, vol. i., p. 71. 
Friends' of Freedo III, Meeting of the, vol. i., pp. 91, 125. 
Freemason's observations on the Duke of Norfolk's toast, vol. i., p. 587. 
Francis, Mr. : his Novel of a Pamphlet giievously abused by the Morning 

Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 338. 

G. 

German Stage : see the " Rovers ". 

Government Advertisements : see Advertisements. 

Guillotine, la Sainte : a new Song attempted from the French, vol. i., p. 136. 

H. 

Head of the Russells, transmuted into lead, vol. i., p. 377. 

Higijins, Mr., of Saint Mary Axe— see "Progress of Man," "Loves of the Tri- 
angles," the " Rovers," &c. 
How to praise one's friends, vol. i., p. 397. 
Horrible Effects of the Assessed Taxes, vol. i., pp. 347, 503. 
Hoche, General : his Instructions to Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, 498. 

I. 

Imitation of Horace, lib. iii. cann. xxv., vol. i., p. 627. 

Instructions for Colonel Tate, vol. i., pp. 480, 498. 

Introduction, The, vol. i., p. 11. 

Introduction to the Poetry, vol. i., p. 31. 

Invasion, The ; or. The British War Song, vol. i., p. 103. 

Ingratitude, the characteristic vice of Jacobinism, vol. i., p. 579. 

Italicus : his letter on the plunder of the French in Italy, vol. i., p. 367. 



Jacobin, The, vol. ii., p. 133. 

Jacobin Papers, an epidemic malady among them, vol. ii., p. 120. 



328 POETEY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 

L. 

JaUiti Verses, De Navali Laude Britanniie, vol. ii., p. 604. 

Lead — see Head of the R^issells. 

Letter to Earl Moira on the state of Ireland, vol. i., p. 77, 109, 161. 

Letter from Letltia Sourby, vol. i., p. 195— from a Bachelor, p. 258— from Deciiis 
Mus, p. 261— from an Irishman, 299— from Italicus, 367— from Monitor, 370 
—from Adolphns Hicks, 380— from a Constant Reader, 534— from Agricola, 
583— from Speculator, 586— from a Freemason, 5S7— from a Symposiast, 589 
—from a British Merchant, 593— from a Constant Reader, 597— from Mucins, 
623— from Historicus, vol. ii., p. 17— from an Irishman, 35— from a Sucking 
Whig, 53— from a British Seaman, 93— from an Anti-Catiline, 128— from 
Samuel Shallow— from a Friend to the Landed Interest, 269— from Histo- 
ricus, 491— from A. Z., on Original Principles with respect to the French 
Revolution, 499— from a Calm Observer, 525— from Hibernicus, 554— from 
Perseus, 558— from a Church of England Man, 561— from Cato, 564— from 
Hortensius, 573. 

Letter from General Buonaparte to the Governor of Zante, vol. ii., p. 535. 

lies, vol. 1., pp. 46, 115, 156, 178, 217, 248, 322, 346, 395, 453, 460, 499, 538, 573, 612 ; 
vol. ii., pp. 2, 4, 43, 78, 116, 151, 193, 227, 304, 330, 377, 440, 481, 512. 

Lille, translation of a letter from, vol. i., p. 26. 

Lines written at the close of the year 1797, vol. i., p. 330. 

Lines written under the Bust of Charles Fox at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., 
p. 489. 

Lines written under the Bust of a certain Orator, not at the Crown and Anchor, 
vol. i., p. 490. 

List of ships and vessels belonging to France, Spain, and Holland, taken, &c., 
since the commencement of the war, vol. ii., p. 120. 

Loves of the Triangles : a Mathematical and Philosophical Poem, vol. ii., pp. 162, 
200, 274. 

M. 

Manners and Character of the Age, vol. ii., p. 564. 

Marten, Henry : inscription for his apartment in Chepstow Castle, vol. i., p. 35. 

Macf-xngus, Mr. : his speech at the meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., 
p. 131. 

Meeting of the Friends of Freedom, vol. i., pp. 91, 125. 

Misrepresentations, vol. i., pp. 19, 47, 117, 157, 180, 218, 252, 293, 324, 347, 396, 436, 
470, .501, 541, 577, 615 ; vol. ii., pp. 8, 46, 79, 121, 154, 195, 231, 307, 333, 441, 484, 
515 597. 

Mistal-es, vol. i., pp. 56, 124, 159, 188, 221, 257, 351, 397, 439, 473, 504, 543, 581, 620 ; 
vol. ii., pp. 12, 48, 84, 126, 154, 199, 235, 308, 338, 385, 443, 484, 519. 

Misapprehension on the subject of the proposed Increase of the Assessed Taxes, 
vol. i., p. 190. 

Moira, Lord : the singularity of his conduct, vol. i , p. 58 — his story of the Child 
and the Rush Light contradicted, p. 188— his weakness, p. 252 — lays it down 
as a general principle, that the liberty of the press is destroyed in Ireland, 
p. 274— is referred to the Press and the Dublin Evening Post, p. 275 
—famous for acting a bull, vol. ii., p. 14— duped to an extraordinary degree, 
p. 86— a great physiognomist, p. 517— a great dupe, p. 518, &c., &c., &c. 

Moira, Lord : Letter to, on the State of Ii-eland, vol. i., pp. 77, 109, 161. 

Moira, Lord : Ode to, vol. i., p. 380. 

Moira, the late Earl of : his account of the celebrated enchantress, Moll Coggin, 
vol. i., p. 299. 

Moll Coggin: the late Earl of Moira's account of her, vol. i., p. 299. 

Mm-ning Chronicle, calls the Thanksgiving for Lord Duncan's Victory a Frenchi- 
fied Farce, vol. i., p. 157— insults the King— maligns the Parliament — belies 
the Resources — ridicules and reviles the spirit of the Nation— advises uncon- 
ditional submission to France— declares that f)ur arms are without energy, 
our hearts without courage, and our sword at the service of every puny 
whipster, vol. ii., p. 85, &c. 



INDEX TO THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 329 

Moi-ning Chronicle : its impiety— its blasphemy — its falsehood — its historical, 
geographical, and political ignorance— its insolence, baseness, and stupi- 
dity — passim, passim. 

Morning Chrnnide, the editor of : why called the Pere du Chene, vol. ii., p. 471. 

Musk-ein, Citizen : his Consolatory Address to his Gun-boats, vol. ii., p. 312 — his 
Affectionate Address to Havre de Grace, vol. ii., p. 498. 

N. 

Narrative of the Riot at Tranent, vol. i., p. 59. 

Naval Historii, vol. i., p. 22'2. 

Neutral Navigation, vol. i., pp. 398, 505. 

New Moraliti/, a Poem, vol. ii., p. 623. 

New and approved method of conveying abuse, vol. i., p. 502. 

Neat Speech — see Lord John Russell. 

Nicholts, Mr. John : his faculties confounded by Mr. Pitt's speech, vol. i. , p. 47 
—treated very unkindly by his associates, vol. i., p. 186- has his pockets 
picked by Mi-. Jekyl of his genuine speech at the Crown and Anchor— offers 
seventeen of the simrinus ones in payment for his dinner at ditto — is refused 
admittance, vol. i., p. 410. 

Nicholls, Mr. John : a great Parliament man, but thought to be very tart and 
sour by Mrs. Deborah Wigmore, Mr. Wiight's housekeeper, vol. i., p. 553. 

Norfolk-, Duke of : his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., pp. 412, 418 — his 
dismissal, vol. i., p. 429 — observations on his toast, by a Freemason, vol. i., 
p. 587 — defended by a Symposia.st, vol. i. , p. 589— curious account of his dis- 
missal from the French Papers, vol. i., p. 614 ; vol. ii., p. 16. 

0. 

Ode to Anarchy, by a Jacobin, vol. i., p. 301. 

Ode to Lord Moira, vol. i., p. 380. 

Ode, a bit of an, to Mr. Fox, vol. i., p. 422. 

Ode to Jacobinism, vol. ii., p. 53. 

Ode to my Country, 1798, vol. ii., p. 842. 

Ode to the Director Merlin, vol. ii., p. 388. 

Ode to a Jacobin, vol. ii., p. 576. 

Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, vol. i., p. 22. 



Pncia, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. i., p. 474. 

Pere du Chhie, .appellation of : why given to the editor of The Morning Chronicle, 

vol. ii., p. 471. 
Pilnitz, Treaty of, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37. 
Poetr)/, vol. i., pp. 31, 69, 103, 168, 199, 236, 263, 301, 329, 371. 421, 452, 486, 524, 556, 

597, 620 ; vol. ii., pp. 21, 53, 95, 133, 162, 200, 236, 274, 312, 339, 3S7, 415, 446, 497, 

528, 576, 603. 
Porcupine, Peter, a spirited and instructive writer, vol. i., p. 332. 
Prisoners of War, vol. i., pp. 234, 277, 326; vol. ii., p. 310. 
Prize of Dullness, vol. i., pp. 421, 448, 522 ; awarded, vol. i., p. 552. 
Progress of Man, a Didactic Poem, vol. i., pp. 524, 558 ; vol. ii., p. 97. 
Proceedings of the Whig Club, vol. ii.. p. 260. 
Prologue to the Rovers ; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., p. 420. 

R. 

Ram — see Sir John. Sinclair. 

Revieio of the proposed plan of Finance, vol. i., p. 143. 

Heview of the Session, vol. ii., p. 583. 

Movers, the ; or, the Double Arrangement, vol. ii., pp. 420, 446. 

Russell, Lord John, makes a very neat Speech, vol. i., p. 126. 

Russell, Lord William, makes a very appropriate Speech, vol. i., p. 126. 



330 POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN — INDEX. 

s. 

Sale of the Land Tax, vol. ii., p. 1, 269. 

Secession of the Opposition, observations on, vol. i., p. 36. 

Secret Expedition of British Savans, vol. ii., p. 529. 

Sinclair, Sir John, embarks with his Ram in the Capricorn on a secret expedi- 
tion, vol. ii., p. 532. 

Soldier's Friend t^^ii Ode, vol. i., p. 169. 

Song : a new one, Appointed to be sung at all Convivial Meetings convened for 
the purpose of opposing the Assessed Tax Bill, vol. i., p. 303. 

Sonnet to Liberty, vol. i., p. 169. 

Sourhi/, Letitia : her letter, vol. i., p. 195. 

Speculator : his observations on Cardinal Antici's letter to Buonaparte, vol. i., 
p. 586. 

Symposiast's, A, defence of the Duke of Norfolk's celebrated toast, vol. i., p. 589. 

T. 

Tate, Colonel ; his instructions, vol. i., pp. 4S0, 498. 

Tool-e, Home : his speech at the Crown and Anchor, vol. i., p. 417. 

Translation of the Latin verses written after the Revolution of the fourth of 

September, vol. i., p. 201. 
Translation of the new song of the "Army of England," vol. i., p. 331. 
7'ranslalion of a letter from Baicba-dara-adul-phoola to Neek-awl-aretchid-koocz, 

vol. ii., p. 532. 
Treaty o/Pavia, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, voL i., p. 474. 
Treaty of Pilnitz, proved to be a Jacobin forgery, vol. ii., p. 37. 

u. 

Unattached OflBcers, vol. i., p. 302. 

Unjust Aggressions, vol. i., pp. 420, 440, 549 ; vol. ii., pp. 52-2, 600. 

Union Star : extracts from, vol. i., p. 352. 

V. 

Vcrsi:s, Latin, written after the Revolution of the fourth of September, vol. i., p. 

201; translation, vol. i., p. 236. 
Vision, The : written at St. Ann's Hill, vol. i., p. 598. 
Voluntary Contributions, vol. i., pp. 465, 534. 

w. 

Weekly Examiner, vol. i., pp. 19, 46, 115, 156, 17S, 217, 248, 293, 322, 346, 395, 435, 

468, 498, 534, 573, 607 , vol. ii., pp. 4, 43, 78, 116, 151, 191, 227, 263, 296, 330, 377, 

405, 440, 475, 512, 596. 
Wickha^n, Mr. : his note to the Helvetic Body on his recal, vol. i., p. 388— answer 

to ditto, vol. i., p. 426. 
Wigrnore, Deborah, housekeeper to Mr. Wright, awards the Prize of Dullness, 

vol. i., p. 552. 



INDEX TO VOL. I. 

OF THE 

ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE. 



[This Index and the two preceding artii.les (by W. Cobbett, pp. 311-319) 
are reprinted in order to show that the same spirit which pervaded The Anti- 
Jocobiii was continued in its successor, Tla Anti- Jacobin Review and Magazine, 
although the Editor and Contributors were different.] 



A. 

Alfred — Letters of Ghost of, reviewed, 
No. 1, p. 62 ; object of, 63 ; opinion 
concerning Erskine ; ditto, concern- 
ing the acquittals, 1794 ; Letters, 
Monthly Review of, reviewed, (3S. 

Algernon Sidney, an enthusiast in Re- 
publicanism, 451 ; illegally con- 
demned, 452. 

Almanack of revolutions, 789 ; illus- 
trates the wild system of innovation, 
lb. ; account of Switzerland, 792. 

America, 4 ; infected by French princi- 
ples ; Congress of, democratic mem- 
bers abuse our sovereign, 14 ; build- 
ings described, 222. 

American Annual Register, 829 ; com- 
posed by Calender, a refugee Scotch 
democrat ; assertions, false ; reason- 
ing, trivial ; language and manner, 
coarse and vulgar, 830 ; author tries 
to be witty on Burke, 833 ; praises 
Jefferson, Tom Paine, and the French 
Revolutionists, ib. 

Analytical Review analysed, 3 ; Re- 
view of Wakefield's reply, reviewed, 
75 ; idea of the constituents of inde- 
pendence, 76 ; consistently with itself 
ridicules prayer, 77 ; Analytical Re- 
viewers, not critics, but partisans, S3 ; 
endeavour to influence juries, 84 ; 
enraged for the prosecution of John- 
son, 85 ; give no account of the books 
they censure, 86 ; Analytical Re- 
viewer of Godwin's Memoirs, illus- 
trates his own morals, politics, and 
religion, 99 ; expects a time when 
Jlrs. Wollstonecraft's conduct will be 
admired, ;'/. ; asserts the pi'oceedings 
of the French Directory and English 



Government to be the same, 182 ; 
abuses due laws and government, 
lb. ; declamatory abuse of Mr. Gif- 
ford's address, 185 ; whom the Analy- 
tical think the friends of liberty, 186 ; 
praises Charlotte Smith's Delmont, 
190 ; attacks Murphy's ^j-iiir/ij'ws, 193 ; 
Abuses liowdler's Reform of Ruin,XQ5 ; 
Invective of, against Peter Porcupine, 
ib. ; tries wit, 197 ; blasphemous com- 
parison by, of Godwin, to the Su- 
preme Being, 335 ; God of, not the 
God of Christians, ib. ; abuses Peter 
Porcupine, 342 ; principles of, 344 ; 
praises of Jones, the itinerant lec- 
turer, 345 ; Gerald, ib. ; enraged at 
an allusion to the French faction at 
home, 448 ; abuses Mr. Noble for 
praising the gospel, and censuring 
the English regicides, 449 ; exclaims 
against the punishment of regicides, 
450 ; defends Ludlow, the murderer of 
his king, 451 ; styles a conspirator the 
fairest character in English history, 
452 ; defends the United Irishmen, 
464 ; abuses Mr. Budworth, for prais- 
ing the answerer of Paine, 465. 

Anarchists, ode to. 365. 

Anecdotes of Republican judges, 15 ; 
political, 212. 

Annual Register, New, principles of, 
150 ; patronised by H. M. Williams, 
ib. ; conducted by a dignitary of the 
Church, hostile to our established 
institution, 348 ; anecdote of that 
conductor, 349 ; praise of Oldfleld's 
Defence of Universal Sujt'ratie, 456 ; 
high praise of Erskine on the War, 
C97 ; exposed, 698 ; character of, ib. ; 
remarks on, 700. 

Anti-Gallican Spirit commended, 107. 



332 



POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



Anti-Jacohin newspaper praised, 55. 

Anti-Jacobin Review, reason of adopting 
that title, 1 ; plan of, 3 ; proposes to 
counteract Jacobinical criticism, 5 ; 
preface of, to reviewers reviewed, 55 ; 
object, 56 ; observations of, on the 
constitution, 60 ; prophesies the de- 
struction of theFrench fleet by Nel- 
son, 123 ; opinioil of, on obedience to 
constituted authorities, 61 ; opinion 
of duelling, 153 ; declaration of politi- 
cal principles, 106 ; discusses Locke's 
Opinions on Government, 167 ; explains 
the duty of obedience, 169 ; defines 
the constitution to be what is actually 
constituted, 170 ; opinion of, on pulpit 
politics, 30-1 ; political creed of, 314 ; 
illustrated and enforced, ib. ; states 
the reciprocal duties of sovereign and 
subject, ib. ; principles of, 315 ; ex- 
poses the Anti-Christian doctrines 
of the Monthly Reviewers, 316 ; can- 
vasses the opinions of Dr. Geddes, 
318 ; character of La Fayette, 345 ; 
declares the Letter to the Church of 
England the text book of its princi- 
ples, 402 ; recommends to the Bishops 
to suppress schism among the esta- 
blished clergy, ib. ; admonishes Mr. 
Wansey, on his insolent and foolish 
letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 415 ; 
admonishes fathers of families to 
discountenance Jacobinical writings, 
434 ; proves the authenticity of Scrip- 
tures against Socinians and Deists, 
439 ; abused by the Literari/ Census, 
667 ; reason of the abuse, its support 
of the Constitution, ih. 

Aristotle, Gillies's translation of, re- 
viewed, 2.53 ; fate of his writings, 255 ; 
life of, 257 ; analysis of his speculative 
works, 258 ; error of these works, ih. ; 
organon, 261 ; misunderstood by the 
school-men, ib. ; his zoology, the 
most perfect of his works, 387 ; saga- 
cious discoveries and comprehensive 
knowledge, ib. ; searches too much 
for efficient causes, 389 ; ethics and 
politics, part of the same general 
system, 390 ; analysis of happiness, 
virtue, and habit, 391 ; application of 
principles, 392 ; jurisprudence, 393 ; 
social affection, 394 ; importance of 
his work at present, 395 ; inculcates 
the necessity of subordination, 396 ; 
anticipates Adam Smith, 397 ; demon- 
strates the absurdity of the levelling 
system, ib. ; the folly of hasty inno- 
vations, ih. See Gillies. His opinions 
on commerce, 513 ; honoured agri- 
culture more than trade, 516 ; had he 
lived in Britain, might have thought 



differently, ib. ; the SAGE thi.nks 

THE FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION THE 

FIRST IN DIGNITY, ib. ; doctrines on 
education little more than copied by 
succeeding writers, 517 ; tests of 
good government, 518 ; refutes the 
absurd opinion that all men are fitted 
to govern, 519 ; sentiments on dema- 
gogues and faction, ib. ; illustrated 
in the Corresponding Societies and 
Whig Club, 520 ; admirable book on 
sedition and revolutions, ib. ; ad- 
dresses the WILL, as well as the 

UNDERSTANDING, 523. 

Associations, legal, praised, 137 ; ad- 
dress to. See Gifford. Exhortation 
to, 210. 



B. 



Barras' motion, concerning, and cause, 
144. 

Barristers, Irish, encroach on the office 
of the Judge, by laying down the law, 
540 ; inaccurate, ib. 

Bedford, Duke of, contributions to the 
State, 20. 

Bisset, Dr., reply of, to a letter in the 
Monthly Review, 588 ; charges the 
Priestleyan dissenters with a design 
to subvert our establishment, 690 ; 
quotes Priestley's declaration to that 
effect, ib. ; reprobates the metaphysi- 
cal politics of Priestley's First Prin- 
ciples of Government ; and Price, on 
Civil Liberty, ib. ; vindicates Burke, 
for opposing the repeal of the Test 
Act, 591 ; his anonymous antagonist, 
supposed to be Anthony Robinson, 
linen draper, dissenting preacher, and 
debating society orator, ib. 

Blasphemy, punishment of, according 
to Burn. See Geddes. 

Boaden's Cambro Britons, reviewed, 
415 ; just description of invaders and 
invaded, 416 ; ranting phraseology, 
ib. ; farcical strainings after humour, 
ib. ; admonished to discontinue writ- 
ing as soon as a relish for works of 
genius shall again prevail, 417. 

Boffe, De, publications of, 845. 

Bond, Oliver, testimony of, -SCO. 

Book clubs, either through Ignorance 
or design, circulate hurtful writings, 
475 ; account of one at Maidstone, 
ib. ; proposed regulations for render- 
ing them useful, ib. ; praised by the 
Monthl)/ Magazine, 47t) ; the pi-aise of 
that performance renders them sus- 
picious, ib. 

Bowles, the champion of the British 



INDEX TO THE ANTI-JACOBIN-REVIEW. 



333 



Constitution, reprobated by the t'riti- 
cal Revieio, (578. 

Brissot, avowed design to abolish 
monarchy, 27 ; conformity of French 
conduct to his declaration, ib. ; 
memorable report of, 512. 

British Clitic praised, 343 ; abused by 
the Literary Census, because hostile to 
atheists and levellers, 667. 

Brothers's Letters to Miss Cott, a fel- 
low lunatic, 568. 

British public characters, reviewed, 

634 ; arrogant dedication to the King, 

635 ; strange assortment of charac- 
ters, ib. ; imperfect and trifling exe- 
cution, ib. ; bungling daub of Mr. 
Fox, 636 ; sketch of Mr. Pitt less im- 
perfect, but very inadequate to the 
original, ib. 

Buonaparte, entirely differs from the 
great Conde, 32 ; expedition of, 123 ; 
denies the existence of Christ, 372 ; 
proclaims his veneration for Maho- 
met, ib.; original letters from him 
and army, 647 ; object of his expedi- 
tion, ib. ; legislative talents of, 649 ; 
campaign of, in Italy, 770. 

c. 

Cambridge Intelligencer abuses the 
most respectable characters in Ire- 
land, 130. 

Camille Jordan, address from, re- 
viewed, ISO ; unjustly treated by the 
Analytical, 481. See Gifltord. 

Catholics, Irish, Grattan's intrigue 
with, 39 ; Catholic emancipation a 
mere pretext, 293. 

Catiline liberality and rdodcration, 
cant terms cf, 443. 

Cato, of Utica, speech against con- 
spirators who invited the Gallic 
nation to invade their country, 441. 

Census, Literary, reviewed, 666 ; abuses 
works and characters friendly to the 
constitution, 667 ; reviles Messrs. 
Pitt, Burke, Dundas, and Lawrence, 
ib.; praises Paine, Sheridan, and Fox, 
ib.; reprobates the Anti- Jacobin 
Reviewers for defending order, 
morals, religion, and the British 
constitution, ib. 

Chatham, Earl, conduct, character, 
measures, and success of, 576 ; con- 
trasted with those of Lord Holland, 
ib. 

Christian ministers vindicated, 429 ; 
religion vilified by impious and 
obscene publications, 435 ; the firmest 
basis of every virtue, ib.; professors 
of, adjured to discourage Jacobinism, 



ib.; writings in vain plead to Jaco- 
binical Reviewers, 437. 

Clare, Chancellor, speech of, 461 ; wise 
and able, 462. 

Clary's Journal of Louis X VI. , 42 ; ani- 
mated and interesting, 43 ; Lamballe's 
head carried about, 44. 

Cobbett, efforts of, in America, 7. See 
Peter Porcupine. 

Committee, Secret. See Ireland and 
Irish. 

Connor's, O', State of Ireland, examined, 
463 ; address, ditto, ib. ; copious 
extracts from, by the Analytical 
Reviewers, 464 ; defends the United 
Irishmen, ib.; testimony at Maid- 
stone, 290. 

Considerations on Public Affairs, re- 
viewed, 25 ; author of, anti-Gallican, 
not anti-Jacobin, 32 ; ditto, 263 ; 
erroneously considers onr contest as 
with the physical force of France 
only, 264 ; proposes merely a defen- 
sive war, 265 ; dangerous tendency of 
certain positions, 266 ; affected imita- 
tion of Burke, 267 ; inaccuracy of 
language, 268. 

Conspiracy against Social Order, with 
the part taken by the Jacobinical 
Reviews, 591. 

Constitution, British, its principles 
illustrated, 468 ; antiquity, nature, 
and excellence, ib.; history and 
principle, epochs, 469; Mr. Reeve's 
assertion respecting, 470 ; the Duke 
of Norfolk's, ditto, ib.; Reeve's 
principle discussed and defended 
from English history, 471 ; ditto, 
from Lord Coke, 472. 

Contributions, voluntary, praised, 135 ; 
ridiculed by Unitarian dissenters, 
136 ; Quakers', pretence of scruples 
of conscience shown from their own 
conduct to be unfounded, ib. ; proof 
of loyalty to the king, and attach- 
ment to the country, 140. 

Cornwallis, praises the proceedings of 
his predecessors, 490 ; speech of, 491 ; 
praises the regulars and militia, ib. 

Courier, abuses the friends of Govern- 
ment, 158 ; conduct of, respecting 
France, considered, 203 ; justifies the 
proceedings of France, extols her 
resources, and abuses England, 204 ; 
patronised by Lord Moira, 205 ; ac- 
count of the Report of the Secret 
Committee, 247 ; endeavours to re- 
vive the spirits of Jacobins, 486 ; a 
disgrace to the English press, 376 ; 
justifies every enormity of the 
French, ib.; threatens to prosecute 
the Anti-Jacobin, ib. 



334 



POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



Critical Review of WakefiekVs Reply, re- 
viewed, 73 ; praises Waketield, 75 ; 
supports Kingsbury's address to Dr. 
Watson, 78 ; inveighs against the 
Bishop, 79 ; remarks of, resemble 
those of tlie French regicides, 81 ; 
great praise of Edmund Oliver, 179 ; 
commends those parts of Monboddo's 
M(t(vpki/gics which ascribe pre- 
eminent evil to England, 607. 



David, a painter, gives the Deity the 
face of Robespierre, 22. 

Democracy, apostrophe to, 35. 

Dtnreiit Priori/, a novel, frivolous and 
extravagant, 417. 

Directory, French, account of, 8; wish 
to suppress Clary's narrative, 51 ; ar- 
rogance of, 122 ; policy of, respecting 
foreign powers, 124 ; motives of, for 
proscribing the moderate members, 
143 ; arts of, 493 ; tyranny of, 494 ; 
tries to excite dissension in foreign 
states, iij. See France and History. 
Falsehood, injustice, and violence of, 
to Switzerland, 505. 6'ee Under wald 
and French. 

Dissenters, political conduct of, 626 ; 
active members of the Corresponding 
Society, 631 ; Hardy, the shoemaker, 
one of their number, ib.; a preacher 
of the tribe appeared to his character, 
ib.; chief supporters of Thel wall's 
lectures, ih.; Paine, once a dissenting 
preacher, 632 : Godwin, a dissenting 
minister, ib.; Gilbert Wakefield, 
ditto ; conductors of the Monthly, 
Anali/tical, and Critical, ditto, ih.; 
conductors of the Chronicle and 
Courier, ditto ; abstain from volun- 
tai-y contributions, (6.; fast increas- 
ing, 633 ; the designs of their chief 
apostles discussed and exposed by 
Dr. Bisset, 590. 

Dissenters, Irish, declared, by Dr. 
Jackson to be determined Republi- 
cans, and friends of the French 
Revolution, 294. 

Dublin, instructions to citizens of, by 
G rattan, 38. 

Duigenan's answer to Grattan, ib. 



Economists propagate principles in- 
consistent with the well-being of 
society, 4. 

Ego, Counsellor, soliloquy, 355. 



Emigrant, a novel, appendix, 741 ; 
moral, political, and religious ten- 
dency of, 742 ; gross and licentious 
sentiments of, 743 ; supposes the 
public law of Europe mouldering 
into ruins, 744 ; proposes the destruc- 
tion of history to be replaced by 
romance, 745 ; a vehicle of revolu- 
tionary doctrines, 746. 

Emmet's evidence before the Secret 
Committee, 299. 

Erskine, supposed author of the Se- 
cession from Parliament, 19 ; his 
egotism disgusting, 20 ; his testimony 
at Maidstone, 28 ; speech of, at the 
Whig Club, discussed, 526 ; advances 
a position contrary to reason and 
truth, ib.; copies the language and 
rant of Kingsbury, the dissenting 
minister and razor-maker, ib.; his 
allegations sanctioned by the 
authority of John Ball, Wat Tyler, 
and John Cade, 527. 



Fantoccini, political, 364. 

La Fayette, praised by the Analytical 
Review, 345. 

Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, transcribes 
the resolutions of National Commit- 
tee, 293 ; innocence defended by the 
Morning Chronicle, 379. 

Fox, secession of, discussed, 17 ; duty 
as a member of Parliament, 18 ; con- 
duct of, 19 ; proposed plan of ministry 
under, 20 ; resentment of, for the 
dismissal of the Duke of Norfolk, 90 ; 
observation of, in the Whig Club, 
concerning associations, 138 ; testi- 
mony at Maidstone, 285 ; promulgates 
his political creed at a tavern, 487 ; 
adopts Gilbert Wakefield s opinions, 
488; sentiments of, respecting Ireland, 
ih. ; thinks the punishments of traitors 
cruelty, ib.; defence of Lord Edward 
Fitzgerald, H).; insult to his consti- 
tuents, 489 ; libel on parliaments, ih.; 
abuse of anticipated taxes, 490 ; letter 
to, 530 ; attachment of, to the accused, 
and convicted of sedition and treason, 
531 ; reprobated, ih.; conduct at 
Maidstone, considered, 632 ; con- 
trasted with Pitt. Sec Pitt. 

France, regicides of, find advocates in 
our metropiilis, 2; principles and 
intrigues of, 4 ; not physical force of, 
formidable, but moral, 25 ; between 
monarchy and republic of, difference, 
of contest, 30 ; state of, Jacobinical, 
capital of, 33 ; internal state of, 122. 



INDEX TO THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW. 



335 



Fraunces, an American Jacobin, 843 ; 
lends his wife, ih.; extorts money 
from a dupe on account of tlie loan, 
ib.; conduct of, illustrates Jacobin 
morality, 844. 

French, a nation of plundering ban- 
ditti, 124 ; philosopliers of, 445 ; 
Republic, conduct of, to the Vene- 
tians, 460 ; to the United Provinces, 
ih.\ to the Germans, 4(31 , now the 
time to crush, 495. See Directory and 
History, army, proceedings of, at 
Berne, 508. 

Friends of the People, recommend Old- 
tield's Defence of Universal suffrage, 
45C. 

G. 

Geddes, Dr., chiefly known as an 
arraigner of the Scriptures, 694. 

Gerald, Joseph, praised by the Aiudy- 
tical, 340. 

Geraldiaa, a novel, reviewed, 668 ; 
ignorance, frivolity, and folly of, 669. 

Gifford, John, preface to, see Jordan's 
Address, 180 ; a zealous and able 
champion of our laws, religion, and 
morals, 181 ; abused by the Jacobins, 
ib.; address from, to the loyal as- 
sociations, 183 ; list of Directory for 
England, (Scotland, and Ireland, 184 ; 
salutary tendency, and ability of 
execution, 185 ; Second Letter of, to 
Mr. Erskine, review of, reviewed, 
678 ; as a champion of the constitu- 
tion, he, according to the Critical 
Reviewers, deserves no quarter, ib.; 
attacks the legal champion of opposi- 
tion, surrounded by his army of 
tropes and figures, misrepresenta- 
tions, egotism, and anachronism, ib.; 
exposes Mr. Brskine's falsilications 
of dates, 679 ; illustrates the wrong 
conclusions in which the lawyer 
abounds, 680 ; proves the proceedings 
of seditious societies and demagogues 
to have been the causes of the pro- 
clamation, 1792; forcible extracts 
from, 681 ; refers IMr. Erskine to the 
Report of tlie Irish Committee, ib. 

Godwin, edits the Posthumous Works 
of his wife, 91 ; inculcates the pro- 
miscuous intei'course of the sexes, 
ib.; reprobates marriage, 93 ; con- 
siders Mary Godwin as a mcjdel for 
female imitation, 94 ; certifies his 
wife's constitution to have been 
amorous, 96 ; memoirs of her, ib. ; 
account of his wife's adventures as a 
kept mistress, 97 ; celebrates her 
happiness while the concubine of 



Imlay, ib.; informs the public that 
she was concubine to himself before 
she was his wife, 98 ; declares no 
person in his right senses will 
frequent places of public worship, 
ib. ; morals examined, 331 ; if his 
principle be granted, his deduction 
not absurd, 332 ; his principle re- 
futed, 333 ; praised by the Analytical, 
335 ; compared to the Supreme 
Being, ib. 

Government can only perish by suicide, 
9. See Constitution, Directory. 

Grattan, answer to, 37 ; character and ' 
projects of, 38 ; arguments for 
Catholic emancipation, 40 ; evidence 
concerning, 298. 



H. 

Hamilton, on the United States, 841 ; 
an able and staunch advocate for the 
American government, ib. ; hostile to 
France, ib. ; persecutions by Jacobins, 
842. 

Harper, Goodloe, speech of, reviewed, 
421 ; divides revolutionists into 
philosophers, Jacobins, and Sans- 
Culottes, 422 ; account of the arti- 
fices of French agents, 423. 

Hedgehog, Humphrey, abused by the 
Jacobinical Reviewers, 343 ; causes 
of their abuse, 344. 

Henshall, strictures of, on the Duke 
of Leinster's and Mr. Sheridan's 
motions, 300; character of, 310; 
treatise on the Saxon and English 
languages, 381 ; proposes the most 
effectual means of explaining Anglo- 
Saxon words, 382 ; proves the Saxon 
language the spring of pure English, 
384 ; marks the changes of the 
English language, ib.; critique on 
the Diversions of Purley. 380 ; general 
character of, 386 ; strictures of, on 
the Gentleman's Magazine and Analy- 
tical Review, 579 ; vindicates his 
Treatise on Saxon Literature, 580. 

History of politics, foreign and domes- 
tic, 119 ; general view of affairs in 
America and Europe, ib. ; congress at 
Rastadt, 120 ; Mr. D'Arnim's Answer 
to the King of Prussia, 121 ; disci- 
pline and courage of British seamen, 
123 ; reflections, 125 ; domestic 
affairs, 127 ; origin and progress of 
the Irish rebellion, ib.; religion, a 
mere pretence, 128 ; real cause. 
Jacobin conspiracy, ib.; objects of 
the rebellion, .separation from 
Britain, 129 ; friends of Government 



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POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



abused by the Jacobin prints, 130 ; an 
. awful crisis, 240 ; congress at Ras- 
tadt, lb. ; general confederacy recom- 
mended, 241 ; consequences of the 
late King of Prussia's conduct, 'i6.; 
Russia, ill.; Naples, ib.; despotic 
power of the Directory, 243 ; France 
boasts of her virtue, ib.; wretched 
state of French finance, 245 ; indeci- 
sion of the Emperor, 368 ; spirit and 
vigour of Russia and Turkey, ib.; 
inactivity of Prussia, ib. ; conduct of 
the French at Milan, 370 ; anarchy 
of the Cisalpine Republic, ib. ; objects 
of the revolutions from French 
politics, and French power, ib.; 
BYench, try to exclude British 
manufactures from the Continent, 
374; in vain, ib.; Nelson's victory, 
483 ; immediate effects of, 484 ; ac- 
cession of ships to Britain, ib.; 
Nelson's victory prevents revival of 
rebellion in Ireland, 485 ; effects of 
Nelson's victory, 605 ; proceeding's at 
Rastadt, ib.; raarcli of the Russian 
army, 607 ; internal state of France, 
60S ; Erskine's speech at the Whig- 
Club, 609 ; plan of finance, 610 ; 
resolutions of merchants and bankers, 
ib.; conduct of opposition, 611 ; 
political state of Europe, 734 ; French 
declare war against Naples and 
Sardinia, 737 ; views of the French 
government, 738. 

Hoche, General, differs from Turenne, 
32 ; life of, dedicated to the eternal 
Republic, by Rousselin, 754 ; birth 
and parentage of, 755 ; his father a 
dog-keeper, himself a groom, ib.; 
learns philosophy from Rousseau and 
French novels, ib. : enters the army, 
756 ; a corporal, ib. ; a commander-in- 
chief, 75S ; compared to Neptune, ib.; 
put in prison, 759 ; released, 760 ; 
conquers La Vendee, 761 ; proposes 
to invade England, 762 ; seized with 
a disorder in his bowels, 767 ; death 
and character of, 768. 

Holcroft's Knave or Not, reviewed, 51 ; 
literary character of Holcroft, 52 ; 
novels, ib.; object of them, and his 
play the same, viz., to overturn our 
constitution and level rank and pro- 
perty, 53 ; execution feeble, ib. ; an 
inaccurate observer and superficial 
reasoner, 54 ; though trifling, calcu- 
lated to do much mischief, ib.; 
admonished of the inadequacy of his 
powers and knowledge, ib. See 
Jacobinism, Revolution, kc. 

Hollandj Lord, contrasted with Lord 
Chatham, 576. 



Horsley's, Dr.— able defence of the 
Church, 554 ; masterly observation 
on the political principles of Calvin, 
627. See Bishop of Rochester. 

J. 

Jacobin, a receipt for making one, 617 : 
half-educate him, ib.; place him 
under a dissenting schoolmaster, ib.; 
let him read Dr. Priestley's writings, 
ib.; initiate him in debating societies, 
ib.; preach in a conventicle, ib.; 
write for the MonthUj Magazine or 
Analiitical Review, ib.; I'ead Erskine's 
Pamphlet, ib. See Loan of wives. 

Jacobin, faction exists in this country, 
1 ; Jacobins ei'iployed in the States 
at war with France, 27 ; Republic, 
rapacious spirit of, 29 ; capital, 33 ; 
catch words of, 76 ; authors of re- 
volutions, 422 ; principles of, adopted 
by the Annual Regiiter, 458 ; prints 
and speeches. See Courier, Chronicle, 
Post, &c. 

Jacobinism, daily, weekly, monthly 
and annual vehicles of, 2 ; its malig- 
nant and intolerant spirit, ib.; 
characterised, 12 ; rise, progress, and 
effects of, 109 ; promoted by certain 
Reviews, ib. ; history of {see Barruel), 
defined, 223 ; worse than ancient 
democracy, ib. ; worse than former 
levelling principles, 224 ; than Ci'om- 
wellianism, ib. ; religious scepticism 
leads to, 225 ; promoted by visionary 
metaphysics, 226 ; promoted by Vol- 
taire, D'Alembert, Diderot, 359, 712 ; 
promoted by Mrs. Macaulay, 713 ; 
by Price and Priestley, ib. ; all dis- 
senters not equally favourable to, 716 ; 
Socinians, Jacobinical, real Presby- 
terians, loyal, ib. 

Jones, the Lecturer, praised by the 
Analytical, 346. 

Ireland and Irish, crown and govern- 
ment of, 38 ; rebellion, causes of, 158 ; 
system of government respecting, 
374 ; insurrection, account of, 424 ; 
barbarities of the rebels, 425 ; state 
of, 490 ; union with, recommended, 
491. 

Irishmen, United, attempts of, to se- 
duce the soldiers, 293 ; connection 
with the London Corresponding 
Society, 299. 

K. 

King, parent of the constitution, 471 ; 
proved from records, ib. ; from the 



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various parts and instruments of 
government, 472 ; opinion of Colve on 
tiiis subject, 473. Sec Constitution and 
Reeves. 

Kingsbury answers the Bishop of 
LandafI, 78 ; first a di.ssenting 
minister, tlien a writer on razors, 
ib. ; predicts the Irish traitors will be 
successful, 82. 

Knave or Not, a superficial but dan- 
gerous work, 51. See Holcroft. 



Lamballe, Madame, her head carried 
about to display Jacobin humanity, 
44. 

Lashknave, Lawrence— account of the 
Corresponding Society, 220 ; letter 
from, 701. 

Lauderdale, Earl of, assertion of, 
respecting trade, refuted, 336 ; friend- 
ship of, with Brissot and his coadju- 
tors, 513. 

Lavater's Address to the Director;/, 
280 ; a mixture of adulation arid 
abuse, ib. ; praises the French Re- 
volution, 282 ; reprobates the in- 
vasion of Switzerland, ib. 

Lecturers, Pulpit, in London, often 
methodistical and ignorant, 399. 

Letter to the Bishop of Salisbury, 409 ; 
petulant insolence of, 410 ; elegant 
extracts from, ib.; refined phraseo- 
logy, 411 ; abuse of, 412 ; scandalous 
insinuation of, against an eminent 
prelate, 413. 

Letter to The Anti-Jacobin Review on 
modern Catilines, and the evidence 
at Maidstone, 598 ; to Mr. Fox, re- 
viewed, 530 {sec Fox) ; to the Bishop 
of Rochester from Mr. Rhys, re- 
viewed, 534 ; position that war is, in 
all cases, unchristian disproved, ib.; 
no precepts against it delivered by 
our Saviour, 533. 

Liberality, real, an excellent quality, 
440 ; term often misapplied by Jaco- 
bins, ib. 

Licentiousness of the press, 1. 

Lloyd's Edmund Oliver, declamatory 
abuse of the military profession, 177 ; 
censures the war with the regicides, 
178 ; proposes to level rank and 
property, 179 ; doctrines praised. 
See Critical and Analytical. 

Loan of wives, a practice among Jaco- 
bins. See Fraunces. 

Louis XVI., Clery's journal of confine- 
ment and sufferings of, 42 ; persecu- 
tion of, 43 ; brutal treatment of, 45 ; 

22 



audacious insolence to, 46 ; abused 
by newspapers, 47; exemplary con-- 
duct of, 48 ; monstrous trial of, 49 ; 
execution of, 50. 
Lovers' Vows reviewed, 479 ; object, 
tendency, and character, 480. 



M. 

Mallet du Pan, British Mercury of, 
reviewed, 403 ; object of the work, ib.; 
throws light on French principles, ib.\ 
able and useful advice in the preface, 

404 ; gratitude to the British nation, 

405 ; analysis and extracts, 406 ; ac- 
count of Swiss cantons, 407 ; descrip- 
tion of a Swiss wedding, 408 ; account 
of affairs in Italy, 493 ; account of 
the destruction of Helvetic liberty, 
501 ; character of the French Re- 
volutionists, 502 ; effects on other 
nations, 503 ; state of resources of 
Switzerland, 504 ; character of Weiss 
the French partisan, 506 ; conduct of, 
507 ; pathetic description of the last 
efforts of Berne, 509 ; reflections, 511; 
character of Buonaparte, 513 ; British 
il/ficitry recommended to all crowned 
heads, ib.; general character of the 
work, 515. 

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, re- 
viewed, 91 ; fable, object, and 
principles of, 92 ; asserts that her 
friend Jemima's understanding was 
sharpened and invigorated by her 
occupations as a thief and a prosti- 
tute, ib. ; particidar description of 
Maria and her lover, 93 ; restraints 
on adultery, according to Maria, a 
flagrant wrong to women, ib. See 
Godwin and Wollstonecraft. 

Martinez' persecution of Peter Porcu- 
pine, 9 ; proceedings of, 10. 

Menard, infamous pretext of, for in- 
vading Switzerland, 511. 

Meyers, De, Fragments on Paris, 268 ; 
criterion of the state of a nation, ib. ; 
dress and amusements at Paris, 269 ; 
extracts from, 270 ; strictures on, 
271 ; state of the arts and sciences at 
Paris, 272 ; his account recommended 
to votaries of innovation, 273 ; charac- 
ter of his work, 279. 

Mifflin, Governor, republican morality 
of, 14 ; celebrates the dethronement 
of Louis XVI., ib.; praises the Botany 
Bay citizens, ib. 

Ministry, proposed plan of, by Mr. 
Fox, 20. 

Moira, Earl of, patronises the Courier, 



338 



POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



204 ; his letter to Colonel Mahon 
discussed, 20(3 ; censured, 207 ; un- 
founded account of Ireland, 294 ; 
speech in the Irish Parliament, 
considered, discussed, and censured, 
461. 

Monboddo's Ancient Mctajihysics, review 
of, reviewed,. 565. See Monthly and 
Critical Revieiost 

Monroe's Vieio of the Conduct of the 
Executive, considered, 824 ; Monroe, 
of the French faction in America, 
825 ; a promoter of Jacobin doctrines, 
826. 

Monthly Magazine detected, 198 ; pub- 
lished by a French citizen, ib. ; 
patronised by the Directory, 199 ; 
dialogue from, 327 ; praises book 
clubs, 476 {see R. Phillips and Jacoliin 
Prints) ; detection of, 570 ; John 
Thelwall a contributor to, ib. ; sneers 
at loyalty, 572 ; abuses Lord Auck- 
land, i<*.;" reviles Lord Carlisle, 573; 
inveighs against Mallet du Pan, ib.\ 
reprobates Peter Porcupine, ib. ; 
slanders Mr. Harper, ib. ; all because 
enemies to Jacobiiiism, ib. 

Monthly Revicvj, to be reviewed by The 
Anti-Jacobin, 3 ; dangerous tendency 
of, 56 ; character and operations of, 
58 ; unfriendly to the constitution as 
actually constituted, 60 ; review of, 
68 ; arts of, to prevent the circulation 
of constitutional works, 71 ; reviewed, 
171 ; false statement by, 172 ; curious 
observation of, ib. ; examined, 173 ; 
false and absurd remark of, on 
Switzerland. 174 ; ignorance of, 175 ; 
praises the Spirit of the Public 
Journals, 331 ; asserts Oldfield's 
Abuse of Parliament to be demonstra- 
tion, 453 ; praises his support of uni- 
versal suffrage, 456 ; praises Lord 
Moira for apologising for our officers 
(see Spirit of Public Journals and 
Jacobin Prints) ; quotes the most 
exceptionable passages of Mon- 
boddo's Metaphysics, 567 ; ridicules 
David and Solomon because kings 
and Scripture characters, 669. 

Moore, Dr., a friend of Brissot, 513. 

Morning Chronicle resembles the Monthly 
Meview, 58 ; dialogue from, 326 ; ac- 
count of Tierney's speech, 377 ; 
extracts from, 378 ; continues its 
virulence, 379 ; invectives against 
the saviours of Ireland, 497 ; idea of 
rebellion, 498. See Spirit of Public 
Journals and Jacobin Prints. 

Morning Post, invectives of_, against 
ministers, 497. See Jacobin Prints 
and Spirit of Public Journals. 



N. 

Naples, loyalty and patriotism of, 493. 
Su: History. 

Nelson, splendid victory of, 4S3 ; 
momentous consequences from, 484. 
Sec History. 

Noble's Lives of English Regicides, 445 ; 
extracts from, 446 ; matter excellent, 
composition reprehensible, 448. 

Norfolk, Duke of, evidence at Maid- 
stone, 289 : assertions respecting the 
British constitution refuted, 470 ; 
doctrine of the sovereignty of the 
people erroneous, 473. 

Murphy, venerable literary character 
of, 191. See Arminius. 



Paine, Thomas, letter of, to the people 
of France, 21 ; examined, 22 ; praises 
the French Revolution, 23 ; supposes 
extraordinary virtues in the number 
fire, 24 ; doctrines of, propagated by 
the Corresponding Society, 111 ; 
praises the French Directory, 141 ; 
reasons like the Analytical Re- 
viewers, ib.; a flatterer of tyrants, 
142 ; his Rights of Man lead to ruin, 
143 ; a member of tyrannical clubs, 
145. 

Paris, state of, 272 ; a scene of theft 
and robbery, 273 ; people of, disaffec- 
ted to the government, 275 ; cor- 
rupted morals of, 277 ; former 
happiness of, ib. 

Parliament, Irish, report of Committee 
of, cont.ain.s an historical sketch of 
Irish rebellion, 292 ; of means of 
diffusion, ib. ; treasonal)le news- 
papers, ib.; general result of, 295. 

Parry threatens to prosecute The Anti- 
Jacobin for attacking the Courier, 376 ; 
challenged to do so, ib. 

Pennsylvania, court of, 11 ; famous for 
bastards and cuckoldom, 15 ; civic 
feast in Philadelphia, ib. 

Perry, a brisk, bouncing liquor, wants 
strength, 248. 

Phillips, R., editor of the Monthly 
Magazine, 200 ; history of, ib. ; con- 
duct at Leicester, ib. ; confined two 
years for sedition, ib.; establishes the 
Monthly Magazine, ib.; other labours 
of, in the cause, 201 ; praised by the 
Analytical, ib. ; the friend of Hol- 
croft, Wakefield, and Godwin, ib. ; 
purveyor-general to Jacobins, 325 ; 
undertakes to teach our King, who, 
of his subjects, deserve reward, 635 ; 



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supposed to be sprung from Paul 
Pliillips, clerk of the parish, and 
president of an alc-kouse club for 
iiKuutr/inf/ the nation in the reign of 
Queen Anne, ib. 

Pitt, the Right Hon. William, con- 
trasted with Mr. Fox, 575 ; educa- 
tion and juvenile studies, 576 ; 
honourable election of, ili.; addicted 
neither to gaming nor debauchery, 
577 ; political principles and conduct 
of, ib. ; risks popularity for the 
good of his country, 57S ; measures 
and success of, 579 ; farther con- 
trasted with Mr. Fox, 702. 

Poetry, explanation of the pi'int, 115 ; 
Progress of Liberty, 116 ; Congratu- 
latory Ode, 117 ; United Irishmen, 
118 ; Wanderings of lapis, 228 ; 
Address to the Premier Peer in 
imitation of Horace, 233 ; Jacobin 
Council, 235 ; sent with a Shilling, 
236 ; Ages of Reason, ib.; Epistle 
from Miss Seward to Mr. Lister, 237 ; 
Anarchists, an Ode, 365 ; Honey 
Moon of Fox and Tooke in Imita- 
tion of Horace and Lydia, 597 ; Lines 
to Lady Nelson, ib. ; song on Admiral 
Nelson's Victory, 599. 

Polybius, admirable, general j)rinciples 
of government, thinks a mixed con- 
stitution the best, 521. Sec Gillies. 

Porcupine, Peter, efforts of, in 
America, 7; Republican Judge, ib.; 
attempts of Spanish Ambassador 
against, 9 ; examines the justice of 
the REPUBLICAN JUDGE, 11 ; charac- 
terizes republican justice, 12 ; Jaco- 
binism, ib.; Bone to Gnaw for the 
Democrats, 342 ; abused by the 
Analytical Review, ib.; will of, 726; 
Diplnmatic Blunderbuss of, ih.; excel- 
lent tendency and able execution, 
836 ; I'olilical Censor of, for January, 
1797, 836 ; ditto, for March, 1797, 839 ; 
elocjuence and ability of both, ih. 

Porcupiniana, 479 ; strictures on the 
Whig Club, ib.; on Volney the 
Atheist, 592 ; on Priestley, ib. 

Portland, Duke of, junction with IMr. 
Pitt justified, 206 ; obligations of the 
country to him and friends, 474. 

Price. See Jacobinism and Dissenters. 

Priestley, Dr., reduced state of, 16 ; 
declares Republican governments to 
be most arbitrary, ib.; Original 
Letters to, reviewed, 146 ; authority 
of, referred to, to sanction the abuse 
of the Church, 476 ; misrepresenta- 
tions of, 555 ; the firebrand philo- 
sopher, 592 ; declared intention to 
blow up the Church, 026. 



Prints, Jacobin, concur in asserting 
that the facts, reported by the 
Secret Committee, were before 
known to them, 247 ; accuse the Navy 
Board of inactivity, 377 ; mi.srepre- 
sentations and falsehoods of, noted, 
379 ; ditto, 496. 

Prospectus of the Anti-Jacobin Reviev), 
1 ; of the old Enf/lishnian, 601. 

Prostitution. See Mary WoUstonecraf t. 



Q. 

Quakers, contributed nothing volun- 
tarihi to the State, 136 ; pretence of 
conscience unfounded, 137 ; loyalty 
of, exposed, 356 ; origin and principles 
of the sect, 357 ; farther exposed, 
709 ; ten commandments of, 711. 



R. 

Reform, a veil for the most dangerous 
conspiracies, 139. 

Reformers, in unison of counsels with 
France, 66 ; coincidence traced, ib. 

Regicides, English, Lives of (see 
Noble) ; French have sworn hatred 
to the Monarchy, even of the 
Supreme Being, 446. 

Reviews, democratical, the mere instru- 
ments of faction, 2. 

Revolution, French, three classes of 
friends of, 741 ; proposes to establish 
universal Pyrrhonism, 743 ; germs, 
principles, and causes of, 746 ; ex- 
pressions built upon, 747. 

Rivers's History and Conduct of the Dis- 
senters, reviewed, 626 ; character of 
John Knox, 627 ; dissenters inimical 
to our establishment, ib.; character 
of Price, 629. 

Robespierre praised by republicans and 
levellers, 22. 

Robhison's (Mrs.) Walsinr/ham, re- 
viewed, 160 ; literary character of, 
161; political principles, ib.; misre- 
presents the manners of the great, 
and state of the poor, 162 ; ad- 
monished to read Blair's Lectures, 
163 ; not to go beyond her depth, 164. 

Robinson's, Anthony, View of the English 
Wars, 613 ; life and character of the 
author, 614 ; apprenticed to a dissent- 
ing linen-draper, ib.; a sectarian 
preacher, 615 ; an orator in debating 
societies, ib.; his work a mere vehicle 
of Jacobinism, 617. 

Rousseati, character of, 360 : doctrine 
of, 748 ; political, 749. 



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POETKY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. 



s. 

Saint Lambert, principles of morality, 
706 ; new catechism, 7ii7. 

Sallnst, remarks of, on false modera- 
tion towards consiiirators, 442. 

Scriptures defended ajiuinst Socinians 
and Deists, 480: attacks on, give 
them new force, ib.; revilers of (see 
Geddes). 

Secession. See Fox. 

Seditious meetings. Bill for restrain- 
ing, praised, (56. 

Slicars, Report of Trial of, reviewed, 540. 

Sheridan's testimony at Maidstone, 280. 

Smith's (Charlotte) Young Philosopher 
reviewed, 1S7 ; she has talents for 
novel-writing, ih.; defects, egotism, 
and repetition of the same story, ib.; 
politics beyond her reach, 188 ; 
abuse of kings, ib.; blunder about 
Roman demagogues, ib.; frivolous 
and false remarks, 189 ; praised by 
the Analyticet.1, 190. 

Social order defended against the 
principles of the French revolution, 
by Abbe de Voisin, 772 ; ability of 
the work, 773 ; principles of Govern- 
ment, 775 ; confutation of the Rights 
of Mail doctrines, 770 ; confutation of 
the Ahhc Sieyes, 779. 

Society, Corresponding, object of. 111 
(see Thomas Paine) ; account of. See 
Lawrence Lashknave. 

Societies, Debating. See Police Magis- 
trates. 

Spirit of the jjublic journals, 324 ; con- 
tains the quintessence of Jacobinism, 
ib.; extracts from tlie most Jacobini- 
cal publications, 325 ; address of, to 
the soldiers, 328. See Monthly, Criti- 
cal, and Analytieed Reviens ; Courier, 
Post, Chronicle, Monthly .Magazine, and 
R. Phillips. 

Stiguer, the Swiss patriot, high 
character of, 503. 

Stonehouse's Letters to Priestley, 140 ; 
predict the downfal of every govern- 
ment, 148 ; exhibit every feature of 
the Jacoljin character, ih. ; praise the 
new Annual Register, 150. 

Switzerland and Swiss. See Mallet du 
Pan and History. 



T. 

Talleyrand, Perigord, a friend of Op- 
position :^Iembers, 151. 
Taxation, plan of, on income justified, 

487. 



Thanet, Earl of, evidence of, at Maid- 
stone, 290. 

Theatre, 114-248-479. Set Cauihro-Biilons, 
Lovers' Voios, &c. 

Thomas's Consequences of an English In- 
vasion, reviewed, 459 ; sermon on pub- 
lic worship, 672. 

Toasts, seditious, 69; standing of the 
Corresponding Society and Whig 
Club, 80. See Fox and the Duke of 
Norfolk. 

Tooke, John Home— D;!T)s;onso/'/'(tr/(,)/ 
considered, 385 ; political anecdotes 
of, ih.; literary merit ascertained, 380 
(see Henshall); Pirer.nons of Purtey, 
reviewed, 655 ; Portraits by (see Pitt 
and Fox). 

Turenne, different from Hoche, 32. 



u. 

Unilcru-ahl, Fall of, reviewed, 663; 
tyranny of the Directory, 664 ; perfidy 
of, 665. 

V. 

Vaurien, review of, reviewed, 685 ; merit 
as a satirical performance, ih.; ex- 
hibits the consequences of Godwin's 
Political Justice, 686 ; describes the 
various modes of seizing on property, 
687. 

Voltaire, observations of, concerning 
government, 9 ; character, 360 ; philo- 
sophy, religion, and morality of, 751 ; 
life of, by Verney, 816. 

Vultures, modern, 812. 



w. 

Wakefield, admonition to, 36 ; Reply to 
the Bishop of Landaff, 72 ; Letter to 
the Attorney General, 151 ; .scurrilous 
abuse of Mr. Pitt, 152 ; as.serts all 
human governments to be incorrig- 
ibly profligate, 154 ; pretends to con- 
trol legislature, magistracy, and 
administration, 155 ; character and 
motives of, examined, 156 ; letter of, 
to Mr. Wilberforce, 551. 

Wansey, Letter of, to the Bishop of 
Salisbury, answered, 542 ; deplorable 
malady of, 544. 

War, causes of, the French doctrines 
and revolution, 27. 

Whig Club tends to the subversion of 
tlie Con.stitution, 60 (sec Fox and the 
Duke of Norfolk) ; proceedings of, 
versified, 303 ; Erskine's speech at. 



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(iO!). Si:c Fox, Jacobinism, and Cor- 
respondinft Society. 

Whitbieail, evidence of, at Maidstone, 
200. 

Williams, Helen Mavia, Jacobinical 
principles of, 146 ; patronizes the 
New Animal Register, 158. 

AVollstimecraft, Godwin, Mary. Me- 
moirs of, i>4 ; keeps her father in awe, 
('). ; lively fancy withont knowledge 
and habits of reasoning, ib.\ so qunli- 
,riid becomes one of the Atiali/tical 
Reviewers, ili.; tindertakes to answer 
Burke, 95 ; answer such as might 
have been expected, ih.; her constitu- 
tion testitied by her husband to have 
been iniiornus, ih.\ Rights of Woman 
characterised, ih.; her passsions in- 
flamed by celibacy, 96 ; falls in love 
with a married man, ih. ; at the break- 
ing out of the war betakes herself to 
our enemies, (6.; intimate with the 
French leaders under Robespierre, 
97; with Thomas Paine, ib.\ taken 
by Imlay into keeping, ib.; her hus- 



band declares that her soul had 
panted for that connection, ib.; her 
doctrines, illustrated by her example, 
lint ncic, ib.; (IS old os proslilutinn, ih.; 
proposes to elude her creditors, ib.; 
deserted by her keeper, ib.; derives 
particular gratification from Hamil- 
ton Rowan, ih.; pursues her keeper 
to England, ib.; her great aversion to 
this country, ih.; being without a 
lover attempts to drown herself, 98 ; 
appointed kept mistress to the philo- 
sopher Godwin, ib. ; married to the 
philosopher, ib.; does not believe in 
future punishments, 99 ; from tlie 
time she became enlightened discon- 
tinued public worship, ib.; her life 
illustrates Jacobin morality and 
religion, ib.; high praises of her life, 
doctrines, and conduct by the Analy- 
tical Reviewers, 101 ; prophetic apos- 
trophe to her by them, 402. See 
Maria, Godwin, Prostitution, and 
Analytical Review. 



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